Word: tempts
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Slaught, however, doesn't rule out the possibility of some team taking a chance on Bonds. He is still a powerful hitter with insane plate discipline, which will tempt GMs to offer him a deal. In 2007, he slugged 28 home runs and led the National League in on-base percentage for the 10th time. His finished sixth in OPS - on-base plus slugging percentage - a favorite stat among the number-crunching set. (When reached by TIME, Mr. Moneyball himself, Oakland general manager Billy Beane, declined to comment on Bonds.) Now that Alex Rodriguez has reunited with the New York...
...Chinese student drama group to assassinate a top Japanese collaborator, Mr. Yee (Asian cinema icon Tony Leung), using virginal Wong Jiazhi (newcomer Tang Wei) as a lure. Wong poses as a well-bred aristocratic wife, Ms. Mak, and employs her acting abilities and womanly wiles to delicately tempt Mr. Yee. Taming the beast, however, becomes an increasingly perilous and poisonous endeavor. The character dynamics are evocative and rich in nuance. They comprise the film’s nucleus and are roughly microcosmic of the external political conflict. The first half of the movie underscores the students’ na?...
...finances are nothing compared with his directorial appetite for catastrophe. Telling him something's impossible is like inviting Paris Hilton to a party. He'll be on the next flight to Doomsville, as when he read that a volcano was to erupt on Guadeloupe; off he went to tempt death and came back with the spectacular documentary La Soufrière. On the Amazon epic Fitzcarraldo, he took his crew hundreds of miles from the nearest city and had them lug a 320-ton riverboat overland and up steep hills. He found a suitably lush location on the Amazon...
...First, the University must stop pulling a bait-and-switch on donors who wish to give to initiatives that will directly benefit undergraduate life. It is not acceptable to tempt donors with the promise of improving the undergraduate experience and then use their generosity to finance unrelated activities. In the future, the Harvard College Fund should do a better job of advertising itself for what it is—an fund to be spent at the discretion of the FAS dean on FAS-wide initiatives. If the HCF continues to be administered by FAS dean and used for such purposes...
...authorities hoped the rate increase would tempt small investors to keep money in the bank rather than dump it into an overpriced equity market, they're likely to be disappointed. Savings accounts in China yield about 3%. With annual inflation running at about the same rate, that's no return at all. "Bank savings are ridiculous," snapped Li Gongren, a 55-year-old retired businessman, while he was loitering in a Shanghai brokerage office this week. "Why would you put your money in the bank and make nothing when you can make money in stocks...