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...Wall Street is pretty much tasting its own cooking these days, and that means earnings - and maybe cable guys - will be setting the temperature of the Dow, NASDAQ and S&P 500 for a while yet. And with everyone awaiting gloom and doom, well, there's always a chance, however slim, for a pleasant surprise...
Fans of famed movie pig Babe were wallowing in grief after recent reports that he was headed to the slaughterhouse for fear of foot-and-mouth disease. In fact, the porker marked for doom was another celeb pig, named Grunty, who starred in the British TV show Pig at the Ritz--and who was ultimately spared. That's Babe at right. We think...
...spreading the bug while I figured out how to get rid of it. Next I checked my Out box. Argh! Sixty-five messages were queued up, waiting to be sent to my friends. Each was from me. Each bore the subject line "Homepage." Each had a file attached, as doom-laden as a warhead...
...With the Republican nomination secured, Card used his knowledge of Mass. politics against fellow Bay State politician Michael Dukakis, uncovering the highly controversial Willie Horton issue, which helped doom Dukakis's run for the White House...
...Kwan's trek involved some political peril. He was on the mainland to make Lan Yu and I, based on a gay novel published pseudonymously on the Internet. Kwan, a specialist in soft-focus romantic doom (Rouge, Red Rose, White Rose), filmed in secret and without official clearance. The story, about city-man Handong (Hu Jun) and country-boy Lan Yu (Lu Yue), could be a ripe pile of clichE if not handled deftly, but the clarity of Kwan's view gives the affair a somber tang. "You probably don't know it, but I love you," Handong says toward...