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Springsteen's liberal, humanist side comes out in the last two songs he wrote for The Rising. Worlds Apart is a new take on the classic story of lovers separated by a cultural divide, the lovers in this case being an American and a Middle Eastern Muslim. Springsteen sings, "We'll let love build a bridge, over mountains draped in stars/ I'll meet you on the ridge, between these worlds apart." Paradise opens from the perspective of a suicide bomber ("In the crowded marketplace, I drift from face to face") before transitioning to the mind of a woman...
...company's share price to its existing assets and past earnings. Only after determining a stock's value today would Graham entertain guesstimates of what it might earn tomorrow. Anchoring his analysis in reality gave Graham what he called "the margin of safety." As he wrote in his classic The Intelligent Investor, "Operations for profit should be based not on optimism but on arithmetic...
...says it had been suggested by the 1949 Italian neo-realist near-classic "Bitter Rice" - or, more precisely, by the sultry, skirt-hiking image of Silvana Mangano, who made the movie an international hit. "Lorna" had closer affinities to "Tobacco Road" and "God's Little Acre," Erskine Caldwell's novels of the dirt-poor, lubricious South, where the men are mean and the women are willin', where everyone quotes the Bible and nobody follows its Commandments. There isn't much skin in the movie, just a midnight bath in the old crick, but what's there is cherce; for Meyer...
...monetary policy for 12 nations and prides itself on independence from politics, that's a bet few seasoned gamblers would take. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY A Fight for the Rights to Silence When Mike Batt, British writer of cutesy hits like Art Garfunkel's Bright Eyes, was finishing his latest work, Classical Graffiti, an album of pop-classic arrange-ments by the Planets, he was careful to credit the ori-ginal composers. He even titled the minute's silence that preceded the bonus tracks One Minute's Silence and credited it to Batt/Cage - a cheeky reference to the late avant-garde composer...
...dropped the rock'n'roll of his last ready-to-wear show and instead invited intimate groups of 140 to two viewings in Coco Chanel's original showroom. The clothes - studies in contrasts with tweed jackets over tulle skirts - harked back to those elegance-first days. Sandwiched between the classic old guard and flashy new are the middle-aged guard, who first made their mark in the 1980s. Christian Lacroix, recently named designer of the Pucci label, showed a collection brimming with confidence. Feathers, sequins, fur, leather - as one fashion editor said, it was "like the model walked through...