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...then Gil commits a violent crime (he thinks it will help Bobby shake a batting slump) and abducts the ballplayer's son (he also thinks the man needs a lesson in humility). Since these plot twists exceed any motivations offered, De Niro's performance begins to seem more a matter of well-practiced gestures than real conviction, and the long, silly finale more an exercise in empty panache by director Tony Scott than a truly gripping suspense piece involving people we care about...
Part of the reason his approval ratings exceed 80% is that Leavitt fits the evolving profile of Utah's citizenry, a conservative group joined lately by cyberhungry and outdoors-loving transplants from the West Coast. He's hip to online projects like the Western-based "virtual university," and he has defended the environment more forcefully than the Republican-controlled state legislature. Still, Leavitt is no Al Gore: he supports the state's strict antiabortion law and the recent ban on after-school clubs, imposed to deter gay-student alliances. If Dole wins, look for Leavitt to be offered a Cabinet...
...Gazette also reported that "there will be a limited fund to provide financial assistance for those who exceed the stop-loss for co-payments...
...reason for the increase in bankruptcies: banks. As the debt keeps building, banks continue to flood mailboxes with solicitations of plastic cash--a record 2.7 billion offers were sent out last year. With interest rates that often exceed 18%, and with the banks' cost of money around 3%, credit cards now represent the banks' most profitable source of loans. Small wonder that consumer debt comprises about half of all bank lending, up from one-third a decade ago. Some lenders brazenly target new bankruptcy filers, who, for the following six years, are legally barred from declaring bankruptcy and walking away...
...years ago, Andrei Mansky, and a friend pooled $100 to buy materials for a label-design company they started at a truck depot. Today his firm, Vidus, employs 40 people who design and sell labels for products from all over Russia. Revenues exceed $4.5 million a year, which makes Mansky, 28, one of Russia's new rich: he zips around St. Petersburg in a slick red Mazda and vacations with his wife in France and Spain. "If the Communists come to power--well, if that happens, it happens," he says with a shrug. "I am not stashing money or getting...