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According to William M. Weddleton, Kozmo.com's general manager in Boston, the service is perfect for cash-starved college students with odd cravings at even odder hours...
...first period, Noeth whistled Dominic Moore for an extremely dubious ten-minute misconduct for diving. With 1:03 left in the game and Harvard pressing for the tie, he whistled dead a Crimson odd man rush, ruling that senior winger Scott Turco--not part of the break--had left the bench too soon as Prestifilippo vacated...
...trouble Bush is in that when he started doing that--unveiling a new slogan, A REFORMER WITH RESULTS--he was trying to climb inside the knight's armor already worn by John McCain. And going after McCain for "passing the plate to lobbyists and special interests" is an odd choice for Bush, the $67 million candidate who refuses to abide by federal fund-raising limits. So by the time Bush hit Newberry, S.C., and started stringing all his favorite phrases into one--"A reformer with results is a conservative who has had compassionate results in the state of Texas"--even...
...known for years who recently left tobacco company R.J. Reynolds said an odd thing to me last week. He's about to roll his 401(k) assets into an IRA, where at last he'll have a pool of money to buy individual stocks. So what's the first thing he plans to buy? No dot bombs for him. A large chunk will go into shares of Philip Morris, his former arch nemesis and a company that Business Week has dubbed America's most reviled--quite a fall from FORTUNE's most admired list...
...plausibly sympathetic. To understand is to forgive, they say in France, and by poring through the unpublished notebooks of both Chatwin and his friends, by talking to seemingly everyone who knew him and by training his novelist's urbanity on all this, Shakespeare shows how the dandified collector of odd treasures could honestly mooch off duchesses while maintaining that one should live like a Mauritanian nomad...