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...quickly). For example, a man accompanied by two others in a wide open campus field in front of several buildings is stalked and killed by man. Trying to outwit his assailant as he speaks with him on a cell phone, the man is pied-pipered to his own doom. It could be anybody, really (well, so long as he had suffered through a mass-murder scandal in the past), though here it happens to be Randy Meeks (Jamie Kennedy...
...Wall Street's recent stock-market paroxysm just an isolated incident? Obviously, nearly everyone hopes so. But students of gloom and doom have developed some apocalyptic scenarios. A sampler...
...easy to hate this pompous leader who mocks his own grandfather. By the time Pentheus succumbs to Dionysos's offer of a chance to watch the Bacchae, and shamefully puts on a dress as the Maenads hoot and catcall, the audience feels little pity towards him. His imminent doom is not a tragedy; it is simply a foolish leader's receiving his just desserts. Yet during the drag scene, as childishly funny as it is, eroticism sparks between the nervous Pentheus (who has given up all his power to resemble a woman) and the smiling Dionysos, who now has complete...
...Harvard can maintain its composure and avoid the early turnovers that spelled doom for the 1985 team, it should be able to put an appropriate ending on what has been a remarkable season
...that keep-the-faith individual, this bull market's greatest ally, who ended, at least for the time being, what could have been a global catastrophe. "All day [Monday] I was hearing stories of gloom and doom, about the market being in the tank," says Susan Becker Doroshow, 40, a dentist in Evanston, Ill. "And when I got home, we started hearing from some of my husband's friends, who are very actively involved in the market. They were practically opening their veins...