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...Shanghai fever is especially acute in the trendy area of Xintiandi, where the elegant Lakeville apartments are probably China's most coveted properties. The next batch of Lakeville units isn't expected to be finished until mid-2006, but thus far well over 1,000 people have registered to be notified as soon as they go on sale. Shu Yin Lee, who runs a property syndicate that made millions of dollars by buying five Lakeville penthouses while they were under construction, says he gets calls every day from agents with clients eager to buy. But even after doubling his money...
...just striving toughs--and tyro directors--who have dreams. Producers can catch the fever too. Stephanie Allain was a Columbia Pictures executive in 1990 when she signed Singleton, then just 22, to make Boyz n the Hood, which established the urban drama as a viable genre. When Allain could find no studio to say yes to Brewer's script, she sold her house and invested in the project. Then she alerted Singleton. "He loved it," says Brewer, "He said, 'All you need is me to go into the room with you.'" Still no takers. So Singleton put his house...
...surge was in part the product of encouraging economic signs: falling interest rates, low inflation, sagging oil prices, a declining dollar that will help reduce the U.S. trade deficit, and enactment of the Gramm-Rudman law to slash the federal budget deficit. The market was also driven by merger fever, as opportunistic investors pushed up the prices of companies thought to be takeover targets...
...central question posed by The Good Apprentice is whether Edward can be saved from his paralyzing depression. Harry gives him a pep talk: "You are having a nervous breakdown, you are ill, it is an illness, like pneumonia or scarlet fever, you will receive help, you will be given treatment . . . you will recover." McCaskerville has reservations about his profession, calling psychoanalysis a "mishmash of scientific ideas and mythology and literature and isolated facts and sympathy and intuition and love and appetite for power." Nevertheless, he tries to help Edward: "I'm not telling you not to feel remorse and guilt...
While emotions in Chicago have been gathering force all season, the elation in Boston and environs qualifies as a flash fever. Only a little more than a month ago, goodness had been confirmed, but greatness was still unsuspected by even the most exuberant of the Patriots' worn and wistful constituency. As recently as last year, this was a fifth-place team behind the Boston Celtics, Red Sox, Bruins and Fluties. At least a modern Super Bowl record must have collapsed when, in contrast to the Chicago lottery, the Patriots were able to accommodate every season-ticket holder (count them...