| Maria Sharapova Gets Call From Dad At Australian Open, Wins Match
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 MELBOURNE, Australia - One phone call was all it took for Maria Sharapova to shake off whatever it was that almost ended her Australian Open. That call came early on in the tournament when the No. 2-ranked player came very, very close to losing in the second round to a lowly ranked qualifier. That was a bad day— she made 51 unforced errors, faced match point twice and clawed her way back to win. And then her dad called. "I don't want to face that phone call with my father too many times during a tournament," Sharapova said Tuesday after a very different sort of match. The five-time Grand ...
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| Clint Eastwood's Sniper, and the American Messiah
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 An oft neglected basic observation missed on the right and the left: virtues require a narrative and a context. For example: the Golden Rule -- do unto others as you would have them do unto you -- works quite well in a sado-masochist community. Or so Jim McClendon once rightly observed. In other words, the content of all the virtues, and the moniker "hero," are dependent upon who is telling the contextual story. And this brings me to American Sniper, which could have been more forthrightly named "American Hero," because it is a story about the way in which America sees itself, and that ...
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| First Week of March 20th Options Trading For GRFS
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 Investors in Grifols SA, Barcelona (NASD: GRFS) saw new options begin trading this week, for the March 20th expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the GRFS options chain for the new March 20th contracts and identified one put and one call contract of [...]
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