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...amenities, Schlopy is grateful to be on a team again. He's particularly fond of competing with Bode Miller, 24, a skiing wild man from Franconia, N.H. The two shared a house in Innsbruck, Austria, this past winter and might even share the medal stand if Miller can just avoid crashing. "Bode's sort of all or nothing," says Schlopy. "I'm more calculating, methodical. He just goes for it. He's fast--at least when he finishes, he's fast...
...particular, banks are trying to push debit cards onto those credit-card customers who avoid interest payments by clearing their balances every month--the so-called convenience users. But it's precisely these customers for whom debit cards make the least sense...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don’t want to have to go out on a limb when they don’t know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
...Crimson’s game against Penn wasn’t crucial just because Harvard needed to avoid a two game-slide, but also because the game was a grudge match...
...link Bush and his party to the richest tale of greed, self-dealing and political access since junk-bond king Michael Milken was jailed in 1991. That's just what the President, hoping to convert momentum from his war on terrorism to the war on recession, desperately wants to avoid. The fallout will swing on the following key questions...