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...that doesn't mean the President always behaves like a gentleman. As in basketball, Obama is a trash-talk enthusiast who tries to get into the heads of his opponents and sucker them into taking more difficult shots. "He is very strategic about his use of it," says Eugene Kang, the 25-year-old White House special-projects coordinator, who played with the President at Andrews Air Force Base in late June. "It's always fun to make the putt and give him a nice little look at the end." (See pictures of Barack Obama's college years...
...finding and silencing them. It's not just his job; it's his vocation. More than that, for him it's fun. If defusing IEDs isn't a drug for James, it's his headiest, most essential adrenaline. Though his mates aren't crazy about his methods--Sanborn sucker punches James in the jaw after one escapade--they'll come to appreciate him. "Not very good with people, are you?" Eldridge says to James. "But you're a good warrior...
...basically tough talk [but] moderate action," says retired Navy rear admiral Stephen Pietropaoli, who now runs the nonprofit Navy League. "The alternative - forced boarding - would almost certainly lead to confrontation; possible loss of life; possible retaliation; and a high degree of likelihood that the North Koreans could sucker us into a confrontation over a load of Kewpie dolls or something equally nonthreatening." (See pictures of the suspected Syrian nuclear reactor allegedly built with the help of North Korea...
...Spread the word: Tagged stinks!" shouted a Facebook friend the same day. The Better Business Bureau's grade for Tagged: a big fat F. Yes, I blame myself for being gullible. But the site was confusing and dishonest. And it's nice to know I'm not the only sucker out there...
...return, also in less than a month. Sirius (SIRI) is up 7x from its low of $.05 which was set only a month ago. Even Apple (AAPL) has moved up 27% in a very short period of time. There really is not any such thing as a sucker rally. There are only suckers. In the long bull market that stretched over nearly four years, many investors who made five or six times their initial investment did not cash out in 2007. Some did not take even a small part of their gains and put them into CDs or yen futures...