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...still luxe, at least in the front seats. The interior also features heat-deflecting leather so the seat won't scorch you when you leave the top down. The six-speed manual transmission is buttery, particularly on the downshift. In town, a new feature prevents the car from rolling backward when you take your foot off the brake to accelerate after you've stopped at a light. The automatic has optional shift paddles. The 328i has a more than healthy 230-h.p. engine, although the turbo 335i model ($50,000) gets you to 300 h.p. These same power plants will...
...Since then they have fallen below their IPO price, while public shares in Fortress Investment Group, a firm that specializes in hedge funds, are down 28% since the close of trading on their February 9 debut. Granted, that's a short-term, backward-looking view?never the best way to size up a potential investment. Yet as other shops like Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Carlyle Group, Apollo Group, and British hedge fund manager GLG Partners toy with listing public shares, it's worth taking a critical look at the broader, ongoing forces impacting these stocks...
Touch screens are unlikely to stop there. They're just too useful. Once you use an iPhone, you'll get twitchy fingers. You'll wonder why you can't swipe your finger across your laptop screen to jump backward and forward in your browser. The touchability exposes the mouse as the crude finger substitute that it really is. Look at the success of Nintendo's Wii, which works on the same principle, converting physical movements into virtual ones. People are ready to break the fourth wall of computing and put their fingers directly on the data. This is manual-free...
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...been equitable in a long, long time. It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen. PITT: You will in Benjamin Button. [Pitt is currently shooting The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, in which his character ages backward.] Sixty and 20 to be exact. CLOONEY: You're playing 20? Really? DAMON: There's a lot of cgi. [To Pitt and Clooney] Is it true that you were the last two actors up for the hitchhiker role in Thelma & Louise? CLOONEY: It was pretty embarrassing. They brought Brad...