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Aargh! Bears!You might recall that a couple of weeks back I wrote an article asking whether CBoT was being ever so slightly defeatist by having its celebration of the Chicago Bears three weeks before the Superbowl (or, as one correspondent called it in an email to me last week, the 'Superbowel' - a frightening thought, I'm sure you'll agree,particularly given the terrifying meat waves that strike Chicago so regularly). Well, it turns out that the CBoT boys were right to get a celebration in ahead of time because apparently the aforementioned Bears went off to the big game last week and, as our American friends would say, stank out the joint. For any English speakers reading, I think that means they lost. However, stumbling at the final hurdle after a fantastic run shouldn't be a...

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