But not so, judging from the giddy reception served up to Rose this week as he returned to Cincinnati to peddle his book.
Eli Manning lofted a pass down the middle, Cruz let the ball drop into his hands and his 72-yard touchdown reception served as one of the few high points in an otherwise dispiriting Giants loss.
It came with the added twist of the former Lakers guard Derek Fisher returning to Staples Center wearing an Oklahoma City uniform, and his warm reception served as a reminder of what the Lakers lost when they traded him, writes Bill Plaschke in The Los Angeles Times.
It's all over except for the name change following the March 13-25 meeting of the U.N.'s Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Doha, Qatar that included a Japanese Embassy reception serving highly endangered Bluefin tuna.
Fisheries ministers were flown in from around the world to stay in the five-star-conference hotel, and were charmed at many boozy receptions serving bluefin tuna.
He took the train to the first European summit he attended in Brussels, and the prime minister's office has done away with champagne receptions, serving white wine instead.
Though Serge holds the foreground, it's plain from early on that the novel is chiefly structured by the idea of transmission and reception, which serves as a metaphor for, among many other things, and very roughly speaking, an implied relationship between language, technology and subjectivity.
One of the principal rooms, the Marble Hall (1), the first of the large reception rooms, serves as an entrance hall from the south entrance, and takes its name from a chequer board patterned floor of black and white marble tiles.
The Guardian big transport debate and reception will serve as an opportunity to finish this year-long policy conversation.
In particular, Senators John Kerry of Massachusetts and John Edwards of North Carolina offered what aides described as attacks on Dr. Dean, whose raucous reception here served as a testimony of his political standing in the race.
