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...cigarette girl Carmen becomes a Quebecois protestor and smuggler, Jose a riot policeman and Escamillo “a Wall Street trader and well-meaning liberal working the proletariat agenda from within the corporate structure”—who, rather cleverly, takes on the “bull market...
MALEVOLENT: (while scourging janitors with a bull whip) His Evilness has spoken! Eleven dollars per hour and not a penny more...
When Ralph Nader sees eye-to-eye with Merrill Lynch, something mighty weird is going on. For centuries, investors demanded cash dividends as current compensation for the risk of a future loss. But then, in the heat of the 1990s bull market, many managements, especially at tech firms, tried a new line: Don't ask us to pay cash dividends, because we can maximize your returns by reinvesting every penny in our growing businesses. And if you wait to take your profits as long-term capital gains, argued these managements, you'll pay less in taxes than you would...
...bringing this up for your own good—you need to know that the world is watching. We see the photographs of Palestinian children playing in the rubble of their bull-dozed homes, IDF soldiers pointing their machine guns at elderly Palestinian men and tanks rolling through Palestinian neighborhoods. Fear tactics and mass punishment—illegal under international law—are no more justifiable in the West Bank than they were in the townships of Johannesburg...
There was a moment in the fall, back when baseball was suspended and planes were empty, when the prospect of the 2002 Winter Olympics was confounding at every turn. We were waging war; who could think of fun and Games? Some Salt Lake City residents, sensing a bull's-eye painted on their town, wished it would all be canceled; students petitioned that their school be closed for security reasons. The athletes, like the rest of us, were disturbed, distracted; a couple had lost relatives in the attacks. NBC was worried that its $545 million investment for broadcast rights might...