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...press spokesman Joe Lockhart denied the White House was issuing "instructions," but plenty of loyal party members look on a Clinton call as the kiss of death. Luckily for them, the First Lady is working the phones, too. Could Hillary help prevent an embarrassingly large GOP victory -- and bail her husband out of trouble one more time...
WASHINGTON: That cash-hungry monster known as the International Space Station just keeps on growing. Now NASA wants an extra $660 million from Congress to help prop up the Russian end of the operation, and space agency officials admit the bail-out cost could spiral up to $1.3 billion. The ISS project is starting to look like a farcical inversion of the 60's space race -- by working together over the past four years, the two Cold War rivals have not managed to put a single component in Earth orbit. And then there's the bill, which keeps increasing exponentially...
...academics point to the preceding weekend, which often follows a shaky Friday. That's when individual investors--who do the majority of Monday trading--tend to ponder their investments and nervously peruse speculation in Barron's on Saturday and the big newspaper financial sections on Sunday before deciding to bail out. Other experts, like University of Chicago professor Richard Thaler, put it down to basic psychology. "People are just in bad moods on Mondays," he says. And the market, we've come to learn, is only human...
Hollywood was buzzing last week with reports of MGM/UA being in play and a handful of rival studios looking at its assets, which include the valuable James Bond franchise. The day before the beleaguered studio issued an SEC filing stating it was considering mergers or other "business combinations" to bail itself out of financial straits, news leaked that director MICHAEL APTED had been selected to helm the company's next Bond entry. The Lion studio had been trying frantically to find someone, seemingly anyone, to handle the film, with Small Soldiers director JOE DANTE and others chatted up before...
Hollywood was buzzing last week with reports of MGM/UA being in play and a handful of rival studios looking at its assets, which include the valuable James Bond franchise. The day before the beleaguered studio issued an SEC filing stating it was considering mergers or other ?business combinations?? to bail itself out of financial straits, news leaked that director Michael Apted had been selected to helm the company?s next Bond entry. The Lion studio had been trying frantically to find someone, seemingly anyone, to handle the film, with "Small Soldiers" director Joe Dante and others chatted up before...