The downside of the Clippers' continued improvement is that Blake Griffin, Chris Paul (pictured) and company haven't left themselves much room to improve next season.

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Serious foodies are discovering The Tasting Room , a tiny East Village haven of gastronomy.

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Here is the thing: we haven't talked about the ginormous elephant in the room, which is that banks borrow most of their money in the form of deposits provided by you and me.

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It's in a cramped meeting room that looks out on the tennis courts at the New Haven (Conn.) Lawn Club that two old airline veterans--and onetime enemies--are meeting to discuss their plans to change fundamentally the way prosperous executives fly.

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"They want to say what the next pope will hear, because he's probably in that room, and they also want to alert the people who haven't spent so much time in Rome just what the situation really is here as they see it, " Cardinal Francis George of Chicago said.

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Developers haven't built many hotels since the recession, with U.S. room-supply growing by only 1.5% in 2010, 0.8% in 2011 and 0.9% last year, according to Lodging Econometrics.

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The agents, who haven't been identified, were caught after one of the women stayed in an agent's room past 7 a.m.

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