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...Bengal tigers in lifeboats and Indian boys who worship Allah, Jesus and Hindu gods could easily become precious, but Martel saves his novel from saccharine whimsy by grounding it in hard reality. He doesn't stint on the bloody details of a tiger's diet, or the immense physical suffering Pi is forced to endure. Martel has done his homework: if a tiger and an Indian boy found themselves floating in the Pacific, this is how each would respond. Most importantly, Martel doesn't make the mistake of anthropomorphizing his tiger. Richard Parker is an animal and a killer...
Yeah, we couldn't keep a straight face for that either. "It was pretty much for the free stuff," says Justin Allen about his first dating-show stint. "I got three days in California, all expenses paid and $500." Other shows pay as little as $100 for a day's "work." But they offer a hit of today's drug of choice, exposure. "We try to weed out the wannabe actors and actresses," says David Garfinkle, co-creator of Blind Date, Rendez-View and The 5th Wheel. "No one has ever come on our show and become famous...
...Neill was derided as an outsider by Wall Street and Washington, but that never troubled Bush. He considered it an asset. Yet O'Neill's stint has been rocky from the start. His penchant for making off-the-cuff quips on everything from Argentina's economic collapse to the merits of a strong dollar has roiled markets around the world and cost him the limited clout he had on the Street. "It's not that he's bad, and it's not that he's dumb," says a New York banker who attended a meeting with O'Neill last week...
...many of the high-end Whole Foods markets, the largest natural-foods chain in the U.S. "You don't think to yourself, 'I'm going to get some spinach and a rubdown,'" says Liz Feldman, who goes to her local Whole Foods every two weeks for a stint in the massage chair. "But even if it's in a grocery store, I don't care. If you have a knot in your back, all you need is 10 minutes...
...Neill was derided as an outsider by Wall Street and Washington, but that never troubled Bush. He considered it an asset. Yet O'Neill's stint has been rocky from the start. His penchant for making off-the-cuff quips on everything from Argentina's economic collapse to the merits of a strong dollar has roiled markets around the world and cost him the limited clout he had on the Street. "It's not that he's bad, and it's not that he's dumb," says a New York banker who attended a meeting with O'Neill last week...