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...BUZZ It's a hard call. Does Cruise the tabloid fixture hurt Cruise the movie star? This is the kind of movie audiences like to see him in, so it's a safer bet than, say, Vanilla Sky II. -By Rebecca Winters Keegan...
That is the mind-set of many patients who abuse their doctors; my bet is they abuse other people as well. Any good doctor knows when you're too sick to be polite and will let it roll off his back. The squeaky wheel we don't like is the one playing a dominance game. That big wheel is likely to get a shorter, less sensitive examination and more tests, and then still more tests to follow up the abnormalities in the first tests, followed by extra consultations with specialists--anything to relieve the doctor's responsibility...
...It’s got its up and downs,” senior lightweight Chip Schellhorn added. “One of the best things is that we can bet our shirts. If we were NCAA, we couldn’t do that, and I think that’s one of the biggest traditions of racing...
...reverse this disturbing trend. Don’t see movies that have been withheld from critics, and discourage your family and friends from patronizing these studios. You can’t count on Hollywood’s movie-houses to do what’s right, but you can bet they’ll do what’s profitable. —Staff writer Bernard L. Parham can be reached at parham@fas.harvard.edu...
...under the new rules there is no guarantee that independent analyst advice is conflict free. Drug company Biovail has asserted that independent research firm Gradient Analytics wrote a report trashing the company, and that the report was paid for by a hedge fund that had sold Biovail short (a bet the stock would decline). Gradient has said its conclusions were...