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...Harvard-accented, corrupt and racist toff who would twirl his mustache if he had one. "Only a child," he purrs, "would think that the world doesn't work with a wink and a nod and a handshake between old pals smoking Cohibas." His grandson and the renegades' leader, Ditto (George Newbern), is Bull's Luke Skywalker, out to escape Grandpa's musty clutches. In the year's most cornball TV speech outside a convention, he urges his Rolex rebels to "try investing in yourself for once! [Become] the hero of your own life!" What is this, David Copper Futures...
...grave. In the opening sequence of Sunset Boulevard, the police rush to a murder scene where a corpse floats. The voiceover says, "The poor dope. He always wanted a pool. Well, in the end he got himself a pool, only the price turned out to be a little high." Ditto Gatsby, which ends as Sunset Boulevard began, with police and photographers peering into the bloody water at a man, full of bullet holes, who had wanted a pool to impress the girl whose voice was full of money...
...better off in the short run tapping your home-equity line than margining your brokerage account. And consider: if you have tapped a home-equity line for any reason, and you also own stocks in a taxable account, you've effectively leveraged your house to be in the market. (Ditto credit cards: carrying a balance while holding stocks is like charging your investment...
Bankers are quick to defend the trend, noting that new- and old-economy industries are colliding as the world goes online. Disney buying Infoseek isn't cross industry, they argue. It's all media. Ditto AOL and Time Warner. O.K., but broadening the definition hasn't helped Disney execs better understand the Internet company it bought for $1.6 billion. The Mouse refocused its prize acquisition yet again last week. And while AT&T and its recent quarry, cable operator MediaOne, are both in the data-transmission business, it is a leap to believe the phone guys can manage cable assets...
Japan and China? Between Tsushima, where the Japanese sank the Russian fleet, and Pearl Harbor, where they wiped out America's, the sons of Nippon did not even know from coffee; all they had was green tea. Ditto the Chinese when they chased American soldiers down the Korean Peninsula. Ditto the British, who for 400 years ruled the seas while swilling Java that was as tasty as their food. Tiny Israel has bested the Arabs in five wars. And why? Because Israeli "coffee" could eat through the armor of a Soviet-built T-72 in three minutes...