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NBA playoffs first-round matchups EASTERN CONFERENCE Indiana vs. Chicago Philadelphia vs. Miami New York vs. Boston Atlanta vs. Orlando WESTERN CONFERENCE Memphis vs. San Antonio New Orleans vs. L.A. Lakers Denver vs. Oklahoma City Portland vs. Dallas DEERFIELD, Ill. - Derrick Rose is curious, too. Just how good are the Bulls? And how far can he take them?
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THE gift that keeps on giving" should have been the headline on the Pentagon's decision to award Boeing Co. a $35 billion defense contract. Defense of the nation, of course, had nothing to do with it, since the end of the Cold War also ended the need for midair refueling of bombers intended to retaliate after a Soviet first strike. Indeed, at a time when drones seem to be bypassing the need for manned military airplanes of any kind, and when schoolteachers and firefighters are being fired across the country, this long-delayed military-industrial-complex scam is perverse.
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Afterward, Josh Benson said he didn't recall that time midway through the first half when -- after his third straight rousing dunk in a three-minute span -- he came jetting down the court with his long arms extended like he was a Boeing 747. But he certainly remembered when his high-flying act was temporarily grounded by a scowl from his coach, a quick seat on the bench ... and then a chin-up admission of wrong.
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Maybe the "bling"-focused perpetrators know something that you and I don't. Maybe they've resolved that they'll never amount to much in any true, substantive way. Maybe this is why they strut around like peacocks, their colorful feathers waving up and down the block for all to see. And that's all right. We can decide to let them be. But what we can't do is allow our next generation to aspire to be like them. We must teach our youth that as cool as the neighborhood peacocks look, they're really nothing more than dressed up turkeys, and that as pretty as the peacock is, all he can do is strut. The peacock can never fly. [...] with so many people falling victim to society's commodity mentality where our personal value is measured in direct proportion to the material goods we can acquire, w...
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I'm hoping this program will open their minds," [Leo Gray] added, "and that they will realize that there are more jobs out there than firemen and policemen. A third grader at Martin Luther King Elementary School, [Ellen Olriedge] admitted that if she wants a career in aviation, "I'll need to keep making straight A's. I don't want to be a pilot exactly, but definitely something with planes." Karl Wright, president of Florida Memorial University (FMU), described the club's curriculum as "impressive" and a "well-kept secret. If they take what they axe learning here seriously, they will go a long way."
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Bradley Goldman says he is crazy about his new girlfriend, although he can't see her much. Such is the nature of a 2,500-mile separation. Goldman, a Churchill native who lives in Regent Square, met Amy Krier -- of Huntingdon Beach, Calif. -- on a cruise this summer for his parents' 40th anniversary. The two immediately clicked, and Krier, 33, has been out to Pittsburgh once. Goldman, 32, is going to California at the end of this month, and is looking for a job there. The couple plan to spend Thanksgiving together. Meanwhile, they get by with communicating via phone, e-mail, texting and webcam.
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As with so much Iranian cinema that we see in the West, Turtles Can Fly is deeply moving and authentic, yet still rife with effective metaphor and irony. Satellite tells his villagers that they need to learn words like "OK" and "hello" for when the Americans come, and when they ask him about America, he rattles off a series of pop-cult icons ("Titanic, San Francisco, Bruce Lee"). He's the child of the future -- ambitious, generous, hopeful -- until the future catches up with him, as it has a way of doing. In Kurdish, with subtitles.
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What does it cost to make pigs fly? $2.9 billion in taxpayer subsidies, with an assist from shameless lobbyists, brain-dead bureaucrats and gullible lawmakers of both parties. The Joint Strike Fighter, known as the F-35, was supposed to be a money-saver. The plane would be jointly used by the Air Force, the Army and the Marines - avoiding costly duplication.
