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Miramax Films to the rescue. Counterprogramming with a vengeance, the distributor offers a trio of summer movies with nary a beach, a bimbo or a superhero in sight. All three films--Buffalo Soldiers, The Magdalene Sisters and Dirty Pretty Things--fit snugly into what we'll call the Miramax genre. Take a fact-based scandal that made headlines in a distant country. Cram in enough subplots to fill three other dramas. Assemble a tony cast of actors just below star level. Then market the product as a searing indictment of...well, something pretty...
...says he was intrigued by the photographs of Milton Rogovin, who shot the lower west side of Buffalo, a working-class neighborhood...
...think my parents wanted me to think of it as a hobby,” he laughs. “When I graduated, I was really stumped as to what to do with myself, and I was lucky enough to get a small grant to Buffalo and take pictures...
...simple, consider a low-expense, blended index fund like Dreyfus Small Cap Stock Index, a top performer (up 2% a year the past three years). That will give you diversification, including value and growth stocks. For a more pointed approach, lean toward top-performing small-cap growth funds like Buffalo Small Cap (up 9% a year the past three years) and Liberty Acorn USA (up 8% a year). They're more leveraged to a recovery--without which small stocks of any kind are a bad bet anyway...
...study by another Buffalo research team found a similar relationship between drinking patterns and potential liver damage. When researchers analyzed levels of certain liver enzymes that become elevated in response to alcohol, they found that men who drink daily have the highest levels of the telltale enzymes but that enzyme levels in women are highest among those who drink only on weekends. Another gender difference: women who drink on an empty stomach have higher enzyme levels than women who drink and eat. (For men, it doesn't much matter if or when they...