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...more than six months they directed their top executives to endure hundreds of hours of interrogation in Room No. 385 of the Federal Trade Commission building in Washington, and why they showered thousands of proprietary documents on their inquisitors. And it's exactly why they faxed, on the eve of last week's FTC vote, the final written concession that led to unanimous approval of the $112 billion marriage between Case's America Online and Levin's Time Warner...
Scrooge never dressed so smartly. Wall Street wolf Jack Campbell (Cage) looks cool and talks cruel: there's a big merger brewing, so everyone in his mergers and acquisitions firm will work on Christmas Day. But Scrooges have to sleep on Christmas Eve; that's when revelations and atonement come. Jack nods off on satin sheets and wakes in another bed--his own, in a parallel universe, where for years he's been married to Kate (Leoni), the sweetheart he left behind to be a zillionaire. In this nightmare world he has two squalling kids, a cruddy job selling tires...
Scrooge never dressed so smartly. Wall Street wolf Jack Campbell (Cage) looks cool and talks cruel: there?s a big merger brewing, so everyone in his mergers and acquisitions firm will work on Christmas day. But Scrooges have to sleep on Christmas Eve; that's when revelations and atonement come. Jack nods off on satin sheets and wakes in another bed - his own, in a parallel universe, where for years he's been married to Kate (Leoni), the sweetheart he left behind to be a zillionaire. In this nightmare world he has two squalling kids, a cruddy job selling tires...
...club frequenter wants to be George Bailey. No one wants to suffer and sweat and barely scrape by, to give up youthful potential in favor of adult burdens, to sacrifice dreams on the altar of necessity. No one wants to be at the end of their rope on Christmas Eve, staring down into dark water and needing a little bit of divine intervention...
...Protestants attacked one another with conscienceless enthusiasm. The to and fro of the Gore and Bush camps, the postmodernist recounts of the Sunshine State, the genteel animadversions of James Baker and David Boies on the Sunday talk shows - all these represent quite an advance from the massacre on the eve of the feast of St. Bartholomew, when the Catholics cut down 3,000 Huguenots as part of the sectarian tit for tat that went on until the entire argument collapsed in exhaustion and the Edict of Nantes...