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...wasn't the only disappointment of Week Two of "Survivor: Back to the Outback." The contestants are really starting to sound like they'd watched all the tapes of "Survivor 1" before they got on the plane, and the cattiness we're supposed to eat up like pasty rice really sounds forced. Frankly, gross-out Wheel of Gastronomical Misfortune or not, at about the halfway point the director's-cut 40-minute "Friends" with George Costanza was awfully appetizing, clicker-wise...
...even going to give us the courtesy of a response - not even that promised form e-mail, for Pete's sake. For a while longer, we just waited. It did occur to us that a lot of the jobs we wanted were being filled pretty quickly. Condoleezza Rice and Tommy Thompson swiped two of the really prime spots right off the bat, and it took us a few days to get over that disappointment, let us tell...
Wang Xuebing never wears polyester suits with white socks. He claims to prefer fine French restaurants to karaoke and hostesses, vintage Bordeaux to rice wine. One of China's most prominent bankers, Wang speaks fluent English garnished with appropriate jokes and has a confident, firm handshake?enough to put the most leery American businessmen at ease. "You wished there were more internationally savvy guys like him in China," says an American investment banker in Hong Kong. "He even has a good golf handicap...
...chance to take the easiest possible road to fandom: I grew up in San Francisco during the '80s and early '90s, in the age of Walsh, Montana, Rice and Young, and the five championships they brought to their adoring yet capricious faithful. Around age seven I decided that rooting for the Niners was really a waste of time - they would win with or without me. On the other hand, the Browns (my dad's team since his youth in Akron, Ohio) would benefit greatly from my psychic energy. It was a weighty decision to make at so young...
...other groups that press for particular ends apparently do not always realize that success isn't just a matter of turning up the heat. Unfortunately, administrators will do whatever they want unless they are shown why an alternative goal serves the university better. The KTRU DJs failed to convince Rice why the university is better off with the "mutant hardcore flower hour" on the air than a basketball game...