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...another blow for Folkman last Tuesday, BMS--which had contracted to produce one of the drugs Folkman uses in his cancer treatment--pulled out of that agreement...
...minutes." But in the end, the Portland case used a single standard for its Internet defendants and those who threatened doctors with low-tech, Old West-style WANTED posters. If threats are specific and imminent, the jury said, it doesn't matter how they are published. (In another blow to the Nuremberg Files, its Internet service provider shut it down late last week; its backers are likely to look for a new home.) Last week's rulings suggest that Net speech protection will be robust but not absolute. You can't shout, "Fire!" in a crowded theater...
...crashed, the banks could have lost everything. "It was Bob who actually got the banks to see how it worked to their benefit," Greenspan explains. Was there any element of a threat in the calls, a suggestion that if the banks didn't play, perhaps Treasury would let Korea blow up to set an example? "There was no stick," Rubin says. "It was kind of a carrot," Summers explains with a giggle. "A variable carrot...
...upside" or beats expectations, even though the companies carefully manage those expectations. In the past few years, only companies involved in computing--driven by ever cheaper, more powerful processors, better software and, of course, the Internet--could regularly deliver surprises that pleased investors. Microsoft's ability to "blow away the numbers" when it reported fourth-quarter earnings recently added billions to its capitalization and swelled its lead over steady, reliable General Electric as the world's largest company...
There's Eddie (Sean Penn), the casting director who has spent enough years in therapy to diagnose his own longing for female love and yet has learned sufficiently little from his expensive vocabulary to chase his analysis with a request for a blow job. There's Artie (Garry Shandling), Eddie's pal who possesses the almost laudable ability to ignore decades of feminist screaming and offer his friend the sexy runaway (young Oscar-winner Anna Paquin) he's found in an elevator as a `pet.' There's Mickey (Kevin Spacey), Eddie's best friend, whose overtreated platinum blond hair...