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...proof that a single flawed human being can be chosen to change the world. Is it any wonder then that the great and the small cite him for inspiration? Martin Luther King Jr. evoked him in his thunderingly prophetic speeches. Only last month several Republican Congressmen grandly compared the fallen Newt Gingrich to the man who led the chosen people out of the desert. Movie directors have immortalized him, most famously as a bewigged Charlton Heston throwing down the tablets in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments ... What we choose to dwell on in the story of Moses says...
...First Wives Club). At $30million, the movie is expected to be a hit with women, though its chances of seducing significant numbers of males is slim. It's a good example of why Hollywood has such a hard time making romantic comedies. Financially limited, creatively challenging, the genre has fallen onto Hollywood's endangered-species list...
Ever wonder why your $40 wireless plan actually costs you $50 or more a month? The cell-phone industry likes to claim that rates have fallen 32% since 1998 and that the culprits behind higher bills are government taxes, which average 12% nationwide and run as high as 19.6% in California. But companies have also jacked up an array of their own fees for all sorts of services you might expect to be free. Some examples...
...state-owned Pertamina and British Petroleum signed an $8.5 billion deal to open a gas field for China. INDICATORS New Course For The Bourse Europe's market landscape is about to be transformed. Next year Deutsche Börse will close the Neuer Markt high-tech exchange, which has fallen 96% from its peak value. Other small exchanges may follow when the E.U. announces new market regulations in November. The rules, which will favor large exchanges and could save investors €15 billion a year, will create a single E.U. market for trading securities, harmonize regulation and allow customers...
When he was a junior, Clayton started an audiovisual collective named Toneburst with like-minded friends from Harvard and the Massachusetts College of Art. Though it has since fallen into abeyance, Toneburst set a precedent for leftfield electronics in Boston’s house and techno-centric club scene. The group hosted DJ and live performances that culminated in a self-produced disc of excursions into hip-hop, jungle...