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...firm's mutual funds: "In the past, we've done very well in up markets and underperformed in down markets, because we're fully invested. But over the life of the cycle, we've beaten the market." This explanation raises a question, however: If Fidelity does exceptionally well in bull markets, why didn't it show spectacular returns in 1995, which was one of the best years the market had in this century...
Many of Lebed's government colleagues consider him a bull let loose in Kremlin corridors, and hoped he would fall flat when he undertook the thankless peace mission. He might yet, but if he can deliver a face-saving way out of the meat-grinder war, he will become a political figure of awesome proportions just as Yeltsin's health and strength are ebbing...
...smoke and thank the spirit of the buffalo that is about to give up its life. A few bison look up from their grazing as a pickup truck churns slowly across the field. Then the crack of a rifle scatters the herd: Rocky Afraid-of-Hawk drops a yearling bull with one clean shot. The teenage warriors, dressed in Fila sneakers and No Fear sweatshirts, scramble in for a closer look as the older men skin the carcass. Later the meat will be hung to dry at the traveling teepee village that these kids are calling home for the summer...
Both "Big Paul" Castellano (Richard Sarafian), famously whacked by Gotti soldiers outside a Manhattan steak house in 1985, and Salvatore ("Sammy the Bull") Gravano (William Forsythe), whose turncoat chattiness with the feds ultimately landed Gotti his life sentence, are portrayed as the real evildoers here. Why? Because they were Michael Milken greedy. While Gotti's silk-and-cashmere flamboyance may have embodied the underworld side of '80s excess, Castellano and Gravano were, in this film's view, the true moral lepers because they threw around terms like "joint venture" and "bottom line" and believed in the coldhearted notion that...
This is an unworthy fear. By this time we should have learned to trust the cockeyed integrity of Ron Shelton, who directed and co-wrote (with John Norville) the film. Surely the movies' reigning poet of knucklehead machismo, the man who gave us Bull Durham and Cobb, will find an entertaining and instructive way for Roy to immolate himself...