Word: leafing
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...GRIESE HAS SAN DIEGO CHARGING TOWARD POSTSEASON Remember the great debate in 1998 over whether the Colts should take Tennessee quarterback Peyton Manning or Washington State signal-caller Ryan Leaf with the top-overall selection? Looking back, it was like deciding whether to buy stock in Microsoft or Mister Softee. Like the Patriots in 1993, who confidently used their No.1 pick on Washington State QB Drew Bledsoe over Notre Dame counterpart Rick Mirer, the Colts got their franchise quarterback in Manning. The Chargers, meanwhile, paid the Cardinals a king's ransom to advance one spot, in order to select Leaf...
...been looking for someone to fill the gaping holes left by larger-than-life stars like Elway and Marino. It's pretty difficult to get excited over journeymen like Elvis Grbac (once a third-string quarterback for the 49ers behind Montana and Young) and prima donnas like Ryan Leaf...
...this tea-leaf reading, and no one knows for sure if we will actually get a recession. One thing we do know: stocks are in their worst rout in two decades. The Dow's all-time high of 11,723 came on Jan. 14, 2000, and it has since fallen 16%. That's nothing compared with the 25% decline since last March in the more tech-exposed S&P 500. The tech-laden NASDAQ has plunged 63% since its peak a year ago, the worst drubbing for a major stock index since the Depression...
...what did he paint during those final years? One last great painting, of a terminally bored barmaid surrounded by a maze of mirror reflections, A Bar at the Folies Bergere. And flowers: many of them exquisite little watercolors (a briar rose, a snail on a leaf) done with rapid, sketchy delicacy, with notes to their recipients, mainly his women friends, written on the same page. Nothing indicates how he was suffering. His love of life and of style was too strong. In their sweet, private brevity, these tiny notes combining script and image are among the most "Japanese" images...
...apartment in Hong Kong's Wanchai district, Fai stands up to adjust his carefully unkempt clothes - gray T shirt and navy cotton flat-front pants worn low on the hips. He's wearing a pair of black-frame glasses and a black terry cloth wristband with a green ganja leaf design that he says lets the ladies know, "I can get you high." With his close-cropped hair, wide cheekbones and enormous grin, Fai may not be the most attractive representative of his gender - he also has the chronic slouch and bob of a beat poet - but looks aren...