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...some ways, it's a better game; it's definitely more fun. The emphasis is on the positive aspects - passing, positioning and ball possession - which is what we work at on this stifling morning. With men, it's first about not losing, about destroying the opposition's game, with vicious "professional" fouls if necessary. That's not to say the Power can't mix it up. In one-on-one drills, there are enough hard tackles, jersey pulling and takedowns to qualify for the Italian league. And the girls can certainly curse as well as the guys...
...matchmaker services, getting hooked up by a casting director is not even the most bizarre option out there. "Where else can you find 25 guys who have had background and medical checks?" asks Bachelorette's Rehn. Today's dating shows may make love and romance look phony at best, vicious at worst. But isn't that a kind of comfort? After all, if you're on the couch watching somebody go on a date, there's one near certain explanation for it. You're not on one yourself. --With reporting by Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles
...bull run - in trouble. Now industry groups are pressuring the big boys, like Allianz and Ergo, to bail out their little brethren. It's a global dilemma: State Street Bank analyst Brian Garvey says American insurers have pumped $526 billion into stocks since 1997, "creating the risk of a vicious circle of price declines and forced liquidations." U.K. regulators have a similar fear, and they've responded by lowering the amount of assets insurers need to hold above their liabilities to policyholders - and crossing their fingers. CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY Making Scandals Add Up to Reform Faster than a plunging Enron share...
...journal, Lewis called the Blackfeet "a vicious lawless and reather an abandoned set of wretches." But today's Blackfeet want no one to forget that two of their warriors were killed in a skirmish sparked by Lewis' talk of selling arms to rival tribes. "We knew, 'There goes the neighborhood,'" says tribe member James Craven, a professor at Clark University in Vancouver, Wash. Diplomatic blunders also fueled a confrontation with the Teton Sioux, gatekeepers of the Missouri, whom Clark later called "the vilest miscreants of the savage race." LaDonna Bravebull, a Standing Rock tour guide, touts her ancestors' viewpoint...
...enough of a deterrence. Farther down, giant sea turtles graze on the marine foliage, and manta rays the size of tabletops pass below. At 30 meters the narrow, vertical frame of a two meter-long napoleon wrasse slices through the water in search of prey, while barracuda, flashing their vicious teeth, swim by alongside the occasional eel. Each successive layer of marine life draws the diver deeper. The only risk: running out of air before you get to see everything...