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...West spends the duration of the film trifling with the hearts of her male fan club, she ends up epitomizing the hooker with a heart of gold. After finding out that the next door priest, played by Cary Grant, is really just a "fast talking Dick" working undercover to bust her dance hall's prostitution ring, Lou's diamond exterior cracks. No longer is she a vision of unattainable richness, but rather she turns out to be a simple girl who only wants to stop looking for love in all the wrong places...
Then there is TV, where baseball is dying. NBC paid $400 million for baseball-broadcast rights through 2000. Yet in 1997, the World Series was such a ratings bust that the network's Don Ohlmeyer publicly prayed for a four-game sweep. He wanted baseball--the World Series!--off the air so he could get his viewers back...
...Wall Street. In the past, flamed-out cures for everything from cholera to cancer have burned those who dared put their money on a biotech dream. Just in case you forgot, or are too young to remember: there was a heart-fluttering, blood-clotting, joint-stiffening biotech bubble and bust in the early '90s, and Mr. Market has thoughtfully rewound the tape. The group's first decent rally in 10 years took shape last December. Biotechs bedazzled for three months, surging 175%--only to crumble over the past few weeks. A slew of "promising" companies are now worth half what...
...heart of the suit. Microsoft also appears willing to loosen licensing agreements to let PC makers customize their products. With the company willing to agree to change its conduct, the question now is whether Klein will give in on his demand for structural changes that might force a bust-up--a step Microsoft will fight...
...settlement comes hard on the heels of the Patrick Dorismond case, in which Giuliani irked even some of his most strident supporters by bad-mouthing an unarmed black man who was shot to death by police in a botched buy-and-bust operation. Observers on both sides of the aisle complained that the mayor's handling of the Dorismond incident showed insensitivity and proved that he's incapable of reaching out to those who aren't his traditional supporters. Following the mayor's salvos against Dorismond, which included releasing the dead man's sealed juvenile criminal record, Clinton took...