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...story and giving voters a good look at his crisp blue suit and grungy, mud-caked boots. His oldest daughter, Cate, gave them to him for Christmas to help negotiate the Iowa snows, and ever since his surprise second-place finish, he has been wearing them like a talisman. At some stops, voters were taking snapshots of his feet. But even after staff members urged him to lose the boots, he refused, and plans to keep them on even when the crusade heads south...
...planning firm bearing her name in Bethesda, Md., that puts a portion of its clients' money into preferred shares. But as Fulton points out, most preferreds are issued by smaller, lesser-known companies. And some of those issuers are seriously obscure. Do the names Kramont Realty, NOVA Chemicals or Talisman Energy ring any bells? Still, preferred shares with reasonable yields are available from such blue-chip companies as Citigroup and Wells Fargo. Here are some pointers...
...explanation of the Amoy Gardens outbreak, the WHO shows no signs of lifting its travel advisory. But even as we mope along with our swabs and bleach solutions and top-off our U-pipes, a flicker of hope appears in the daily infection numbers we regard like a cabalistic talisman. Last Friday marked the first time Hong Kong registered more SARS discharges than new patients since the outbreak began. Schools are reopening in stages. Hong Kongers are adjusting to life with SARS, whatever the eventual scars might...
...days after the attack, the global media unwittingly became the terrorists’ agent by relentlessly replaying images of their crimes, reinforcing the message of intimidation. As an antidote, the public is craving a restorative vision, a larger-than-life talisman to avert evil. The two finalist schemes are both highly symbolic—somewhat monumental, but also fragmented and skeletal; they represent more of an infrastructure than a monolithic building. But what do they symbolize? The act of destruction? Or are they symbols of renewal...
...ITMFG films rarely wake up from.) You?ll need a high threshold of pain for roughhouse and Cantonese insult comedy, for fall-on-their-asses reactions that Shemp Howard would have rejected as overly broad, and for supporting players with cross-eyes and a huge, hairy wart (a talisman of sorts, don?t ask me why, for martial arts movies of the period). But along with some cunning, made-in-the-basement special effects, ?CESK? includes the star?s much-anthologized stool-vs.-sword fight and the not-easily-forgettable sight of Samo?s naked body painted with Chinese characters...