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...intervening seven years, Emily (sans combat boots) and Kutcher (sans whack haircut) call one another after particularly rough breakups. These unhappy times require that Oliver and Emily meet up and go on some terribly awkward dates, where, in frighteningly ill-timed bouts of physical comedy, they each put inanimate objects up their respective noses. When Emily finally gets engaged to Ben (Jeremy Sisto, who played Elton in “Clueless”), Oliver must confront his complicated feelings towards her, and eventually does so by going to her house and singing Bon Jovi. Wait, I think that?...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Movie Review: A Lot Like Love | 4/22/2005 | See Source »

...asking the doctors every week, ‘Can I swing,’ ‘Can I do this, do that,’” Klimkiewicz says. “But [at that time,] I couldn’t walk without feeling out of whack...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BASEBALL 2005: The Book of Klimkiewicz | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

...quotes. When questioned on the Chechen conflict, Putin’s impassive KGB demeanor has slipped on a number of occasions, betraying his crude vocabulary and coarse mindset. Asked to describe Russia’s goal in the Chechen conflict, he stated that it was to “whack the bandits in the john [toilet].” At another press conference, questioned about the use of fragmentary bombs in Chechnya, Putin responded, “If you want to become an Islamic radical and you want a circumcision done, I invite you to Moscow. We are a multi...

Author: By Piotr C. Brzezinski, | Title: Putin's Iron-Fisted Failure | 3/15/2005 | See Source »

...does not look overstretched. I am not unmindful of the risks. But I do think most of the analysis wildly oversimplified, particularly when the problem is identified as "imbalances," as though the economic system's natural state had been perturbed and until returned to balance it was out of whack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investing: Good Times Are Coming! | 3/8/2005 | See Source »

...retirement savers by Hewitt Associates found that people who invest in them held an average of six different funds in their 401(k)s. That not only undercuts the great advantage of those vehicles--ease of use--but it can also put your overall portfolio allocation out of whack, morphing you into a middle-of-the-road investor when an aggressive or conservative allocation might better suit your time frame. "Employees think this is another fund," says David Wray, president of the Profit Sharing/ 401(k) Council of America. "But it's an investment-strategy alternative." Life-cycle funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: The Life Cycle | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

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