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...previous phases-my desire to please other people and my desire to dress in a way I enjoy. When I go home, my sister (who now wears almost no make-up and has become fond of sweatpants) gives my wardrobe the ultimate tribute-she asks to borrow everything in it. I take what some might sniff at as fashion risks. But, as my hair brightly demonstrates, I'm proud of what I wear...
...Matt doesn't mind seeing his father around campus. "I see my dad all the time," he says. "I might run into him or go to his office to say hi and borrow his car. For a lot of people it would be a bugout, but it was something that I wanted." On the other hand, Professor Kishlansky thinks that he sees his son less often. "We share a printer," he says. "That's my way of making sure that...
...fight between my daughters over who has the most Beanie Babies, run a spoon through the garbage disposal by mistake and field a string of phone calls--three from telemarketers who know they'll find me home at this hour, one from a younger sibling who wants to borrow $300. My six-year-old needs a hug. My nine-year-old needs a ruler with centimeters on it. My toddler needs to slam two pot lids together...
Nowadays nothing succeeds like Shakespeare. I acknowledge borrowing from Dumas for that phrase, just to keep out of trouble. You see, the trouble with Shakespeare--and success--is that everyone wants a cut, kind and unkind. Not only is Hollywood ransacking the bard's works for the play that might be the next big thing, but the question has arisen of who really wrote Shakespeare in Love. The London press pointed out last week that the screenplay of that very palpable hit has remarkable similarities to the plot of No Bed for Bacon, a 1941 novel by Caryl Brahms...
...sold short 100 shares of eBay just a month ago, you would have a paper loss today of $12,000. Professionals have lost hundreds of millions betting against Net mania. Compounding the problem, Net stocks have relatively few shares in circulation, and that makes them difficult to borrow and sell. The ones you would want to short--those without earnings or a compelling business plan--are precisely the ones whose shares are hardest to borrow. You can easily short AOL, but it has a real business and is least likely to plunge. Available shorts include portal companies, among them Yahoo...