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...last week, which brought us the first round of earnings for the Quarter That Ate The Economy, the professional investing hordes had actually lowered their sights enough to be pleasantly surprised. And so it was that lackluster news from Yahoo, Microsoft and Motorola sparked a gaudy Thursday rally on all the indexes and some decent Friday follow-though, and the economic news out of Washington fostered hopes that the consumer would see us through...
When Kissinger made the “sudden discovery of a scheduling conflict,” the library invited Hitchens in his place, he says. “I ate Henry Kissinger’s dinner,” Hitchens jokes...
...splitting headache while walking in the forest, Smits remembered seeing a slumped female orangutan clutching her head and groaning, only to make what seemed to be a complete recovery after eating some flowers from a nearby bush. "I immediately went to a bush of these purple fordia splendissima and ate some of the flowers and within 15 minutes my headache was gone...
...After the May riots, Arroyo blamed her fashion advisers for dressing her up "too rich." These days, she makes a visible effort to visit more slums, wearing jeans and traveling by cycle-rickshaw. As part of her makeover, her image doctors tried to promote Arroyo as Ate Glo, or "older sister" in Tagalog. But her polished hauteur has made it difficult for the sisterly tag to stick. Nobody doubts her guts or commitment, though: after being booed out of Tondo shantytown, she bravely went back and listened to the residents' many gripes...
...What's undeniably real is that Shu Qi, after a frenetic five years in the klieg lights, is one lived-in girl. Born into what she calls a "poor, but not terribly poor, traditional Taiwanese family," her childhood was far from blessed. The family never ate extravagantly, and Shu Qi (who grew up as Lin Li-huei but had her name changed at age 17 by a Taiwanese agent who thought it sounded more artistic) was seldom allowed to buy things for herself. She remembers a childhood education "revolving around hitting and scolding." That helped make her grow up quickly...