Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is out-Grinching the Grinch this Christmas. First of all, you have to admit that the guy is the spitting image. Second, the ineffectual bailout of banks and corporations, job layoffs, and stock market sell-offs suggest that goodwill toward man may actually take center stage this year, instead of big screen TV’s [...]
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Read the rest of this article »Recreational roller skating, which I thought had its last gasp after Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu mania, is alive and well in Glendale at the Moonlight Rollerway. This is not just a reprise of sweaty pre-teens doing loops around the Catholic school gymnasium (goodbye, my misspent youth). Roller skating is now a competitive amateur sport, with [...]
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