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...Daniel Kadlec: When numbers like these don't disappoint investors, it's a measure of how depressed expectations have become. And that's a good thing - that's how you put in a bottom, with realism. Maybe we've taken a big step here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Thursday Rally: Bouncing Along the Bottom | 7/12/2001 | See Source »

...true-believer roots go back to Harvard's Kennedy school for Evironmental and Public Policy - "this is fulfillment for me" - and the company's corporate culture, he reckons, is about half sales and half enviro-evangelist. But Kelly never promised clean energy - just cleaner. And that tends to disappoint the purist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why a 'Cleaner-Energy' Guy Doesn't Fear a Smokestack-Loving White House | 5/16/2001 | See Source »

...lovers of great art and great flowers, “Art in Bloom” does not disappoint. Instead, it provides viewers with the chance to see many of the favorite MFA works—and a few new ones—from a refreshing perspective...

Author: By Maria-helene V. Wagenberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: April Showers Bring MFA Flowers | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

...performance. Loud, proud and dirty, their leader was a red dread-locked maniac with plenty of energy to spare. The crowd, myself included, seemed pathetically eager to welcome them, coming as they did on the heels of some intensely boring presentations. Fortunately, C60 didn’t disappoint, with blistering guitar attacks and wild gyrations injecting energy into a flagging atmosphere. I noticed however, that all their rebellious posturing seemed very much like a pose. Their “spontaneous” thrashing appearing self-conscious and rehearsed...

Author: By Marcus L. Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Boston Rock City | 4/27/2001 | See Source »

...with a guy named Scar is sure to have some fascinating moments. Last Friday's denouement, in which a New York Supreme Court jury declared SEAN (PUFFY) COMBS not guilty on weapons-possession and bribery charges stemming from a nightclub incident in which three people were shot, didn't disappoint. The Puffy-partisan courtroom exhaled a collective sigh of relief, Johnnie Cochran hugged his second most famous client, and Puffy's mother JANICE, who had brought him brown-bag lunches throughout the seven-week trial, thanked the Lord. Combs' friend and sometime bodyguard, Anthony (Wolf) Jones, was also exonerated, while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 26, 2001 | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

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