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...Meanwhile, over at an old row house that's being renovated into chilly modernity, Janine (Jennifer Connelly, an Oscar winner, in case you forgot) thumbs through issues of Dwell magazine and worries that her husband Ben (Bradley Cooper) is sneaking cigarettes. Ben's smoking should be the least of Janine's worries, given his flirtation with Anna (Scarlett Johansson), the world's most jiggly yoga instructor. The smarmy Ben and the self-involved Anna utterly deserve each other. What does the wan Janine deserve? For starters, a large portion of Baltimore's finest crab cakes; this formerly lush beauty appears...
...fantasy baseball leagues that give $1,000 to the winner are small fry compared with the high-stakes world of fantasy fishing. That's right, fishing. The fantasy-sports craze has grown so large--it's now an $800 million industry, with 30 million players in the U.S. and Canada--that folks are picking dream fishing teams. And if pisces don't pump you up, there's also fantasy surfing, fantasy motocross, even fantasy politics and fashion to satisfy your fix. (See the best and worst Super Bowl commercials...
...also giving away boats, trucks and gift cards as part of the game. Overall, it's distributing $10 million in cash and prizes to its top fantasy performers. During fantasy fishing's '08 debut, many winners got lucky. Shellee Kuykendall, a stay-at-home mother of two in Little Rock, Ark., didn't know fishing even had a pro circuit until she heard about the fantasy tournament from her husband and won $100,000. The million-dollar winner, a Minnesota man named Michael Thompson, had been out of work for more than a year before fishing saved...
...enjoyed reading Joe Klein's article about the new style, tone and attitude of cooperation that the Obama Administration brings. I only wish that Klein had adopted this new attitude. Instead, the snarky remarks aimed at George W. Bush and conservatives make him come across as a sore winner, very unlike our new President. Brian Hendricks, SPRINGFIELD...
...Junior Melissa Anderson leads BU with 23 points, while Terrier co-captain Gina Kearns sets the pace with 12 goals, including a last-minute game-winner on Friday...