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...different on a daily basis. Whether it's the latest dish on Monica's fetishes or a more sober update on Saddam's antics, the events and personalities amount to a collection of on-going stories, almost a serial novel, which one can follow with baited breath anew each morning. The missing element, however, is completion, an elusive goal at best, but a deep human longing nonetheless...
Jackson described the shared characteristics of the dream as equal treatment, opportunity, access to social goods and entitlement to those goods. All of these requirements, Jackson maintains, will build a "big tent" open to all "those who yearn to breath...
...past is not prologue: the Street pays for future earnings, and in the same breath that Intel used to pronounce last quarter's tidy profits, it also warned of some tough months ahead. The stock got pounded. Ditto Kodak a few days later, except that its profits weren't so tidy. I'm expecting a batch of replays, and if it happens that way, analysts will be letting air out of their earnings estimates for months. So when stocks fall, don't bother looking for an explanation. It's earnings angst, and Wall Street is running out of tranquilizers...
...Judge Burrell approached his seat, Ted Kaczynski took a deep breath, gulped down a drink of water, and began his first public statement since his arrest nearly two years...
...time the prize was given to a black woman or to a Caribbean writer,'" says Walcott. "But one likes to believe that it is based on merit, even if it sounds flattering to say that." Sometimes literature's kiss of death, it seems, can be the breath of life. --By Walter Kirn. With reporting by Andrea Sachs/New York