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...looks to me like spring, when the snow melts and you see the dog shit that's been there all winter." John Malone, chairman of Liberty Media, on the scandals rocking corporate America "Greed is not an issue of business, it's an issue of human beings." Alan Greenspan, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman, on the causes of the stock market bubble
While Harvard’s Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs Alan J. Stone said that officials hoped housing would be a less controversial option than the museum has been, the housing plan will likely face strong neighborhood opposition as well...
...impeccably acted "Six Feet Under" got nominations not just for its traditonal leading-man and -woman types (Peter Krause and Rachel Griffiths) but for its two real standouts, Michael C. Hall and Frances Conroy; the two of them take the kind of repressed characters that creator Alan Ball made into cartoons in "American Beauty" and give them surprise and whimsy and nuance. A supporting-actor slot went to another master of complex repression, "Alias'" Victor Garber, who as Jennifer Garner's enigmatic spy dad communicates more emotion in one tensed frown than Martin Sheen in an entire season of Oval...
...Depression-era gangster picture "Road to Perdition" earned over $20 million during its opening weekend, continuing the trend of successful movie adaptations of non-superhero graphic novels. Last year's quirky "Ghost World," based on the Dan Clowes book, and "From Hell," the Jack-the-Ripper story by Alan Moore, both became box-office hits. Originally published in 1998 by the DC Comics imprint Paradox Press, "Road to Perdition" (304 pp.; $13.95), written by Max Allan Collins and drawn by Richard Piers Rayner, has been reprinted to coincide with the release of the movie, directed by Sam Mendes and starring...
...nothing Washington is able to do can address the question of excess in the stock market - more specifically, the discrepancy between the price of equities and their potential to generate wealth as a share corporate profits. Analysts have warned for years that the market is dangerously overvalued. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan warned in 1998 that its ascent was driven by "irrational exuberance," but that didn't stop stock prices skyrocketing...