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...Zill and the others wander, they begin to question whether the chaos and destruction of this new freedom seems like a real improvement over the limited but safe world inside the cage. But this clever metaphor for the Iraqi people will sometimes get stretched thin by scenes created only for the sake of generating some action. At one point the pride must work together to overcome a ferocious bear. (The insurgency?) While I am as much in favor of an awesome lion vs. bear fight scene as the next guy, it feels like an obligatory fight scene being played...
...bunk beds wedged into walk-through triples. If the river houses hope to maintain their scholarly edge over the formerly unbridled Currierites, they will need to invest in their own spoon-free mattresses. In the meantime, Currier residents must keep in mind: it’s not 33.5 inches thin, its 33.5 inches of discipline and academic promise...
...continued well past dawn, into the following day and then another dawn. As the daily BZ would headline: berlin is berlin again. Beijing June 19, 1989 One man against an army. The power of the people versus the power of the gun. There he stood, implausibly resolute in his thin white shirt, an unknown Chinese man facing down a lumbering column of tanks. For a moment that will be long remembered, the lone man defined the struggle of China's citizens. "Why are you here?" he shouted at the silent steel hulk. "You have done nothing but create misery...
Trading volume at the Chicago Merc has been thin so far, with interest in Miami, New York City and Los Angeles far eclipsing Denver, Chicago and Boston. But a slow start is often the case with derivatives. Shiller, who helped design the housing-price indexes the Merc contracts are based on, points to S&P 500 futures, which were half-heartedly received in 1982 but today are a Merc staple. For housing futures, the exchange is already looking to add more cities and contracts past 2007; homebuilders who want to hedge new subdivisions have requested the longer horizon. The Chicago...
...been created just prior to and during the war. The city was still digesting a huge and largely ill-favored population increase-people had flooded in to take jobs in booming wartime industry. It was policed by a force infinitely more corrupt than the norm and it had a thin, mysteriously wealthy upper crust capable-or so the fictioneers liked to think-of doing anything required to maintain its status. And that says nothing of Hollywood, whose morals everyone had suspected for decades. How closely this fictionalized portrait of a seamy, teeming Eden turned anti-Eden actually matched reality...