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Nervous is perhaps how Weinstein felt five years ago when Rodriguez came to him with the idea for Spy Kids. After all, this was the former University of Texas film student who burst onto the indie scene in 1993 with the bloody Mexican action flick El Mariachi. Desperado, the 1995 Hollywood version of El Mariachi, had a sky-high body count but was in turn seriously outgored by Rodriguez's next movie, the 1996 vampire pic From Dusk Till Dawn. His upcoming film, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, due in September, is about a bloody coup. Weinstein's response...
...chanting continues until conversation subsumes it again. A burst of cheering from the school’s main entrance upstairs heralds the arrival of a new middle-schooler...
Ever since a pipe burst in May in the basement of Let’s Go headquarters, the travel guide’s editors and writers have learned about a different kind of tourism—instead of Fiji or the Mediterranean, they have been forced to relocate a few floors upstairs to the company’s already-crowded cubicles, and will have to foot a very expensive bill for repairs...
...wasn?t hard: Plenty of Californians are angry after witnessing their state get sucked down a financial black hole during the past three years. In 2001, price gouging energy companies took advantage of botched deregulation to subject the state to rolling blackouts. Shortly afterward, Silicon Valley?s tech bubble burst, ending the state?s incredible economic growth. Now Davis and state legislators can?t seem to work together to pass a budget. It?s enough to make anyone call for heads to roll, and Davis certainly deserves some...
...bankers, consultants and their own hubris, firms used their own inflated stock as currency or took on massive debt to pay cash. It was an easy way to get big quick, to diversify holdings, eliminate competition, or even to outsource tasks such as research and development. Then the bubble burst, stock prices plummeted and many firms - and their shareholders - saw their merged dreams vanish. "People bought air," says Jean-No?l Vieille, equity research director at the French broker Aurel Leven. Companies slammed on the merger brakes - which helped shut down an already dragging global economy. Now a new flurry...