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...Chew over the day's market news ? just in time for dinner ? with the FORTUNE Business Report. Today...
...with the dim sum. While Wall Street paraded record profits, in Hong Kong the sky was falling. Efforts to prop up the currency rocked the Hang Seng index, and the effect was more catastrophic than any galactic collision. By Friday, the Dow was as bitten as a Marv Albert chew-toy. Looks like George Soros has a lot more to answer...
...Meanwhile, it seems Albert has another victim on his hands. Outside the courtroom, surprise witness (and peeved chew-toy) Patricia Masten said, "Personally, I'm very upset that he's not doing any jail time...
...profession like lawyering rather than a trade like plumbing. Huge nonprofit institutions such as the Freedom Forum have been created in the press's quest to analyze itself. Daily they convene media panels, in which a couple of reporters and a journalism professor sit before an audience and chew over subjects like "Everybody Thinks We're Scum, and No Wonder: Reflections on Public Mistrust of the Media." Grimly, the nonprofits commission polls to take the public's temperature, and the results are unvarying: reporters rank somewhere below concentration-camp guards, nobody believes what he reads in the newspaper...
...that Mickey Mantle shunned giving autographs to kids and professional ballplayers were not the boy scouts they made themselves out to be. The book became a best seller, but Bouton was condemned by his peers. After retiring in 1970, he became a TV sportscaster and entrepreneur, creating Big League Chew bubble gum. Currently working on two baseball-related screenplays and a musical version of Ball Four, Bouton still pitches in an amateur league...