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...Like the finest Picasso paintings, the collision of these financial giants hints at a deeper, more complex revolution. The neat little boxes in which we store our finances--mortgage, cash, savings, and so on--are being subdivided in a million ways. Soon you won't recognize them individually. For instance, all your assets could be wrapped into a wealth account that is constantly on the prowl for investing opportunity worldwide...
...Aesop fable. Kiarostami, who is Iran's leading director (Through the Olive Trees) and screenwriter (The White Balloon), tells his tales with the grace and gravity of a wise old man in a village square. Taste of Cherry, which won the top prize at Cannes last year, is the finest of his shaggy-man stories...
Mahon's star attraction is its fabulous natural harbor, three miles long and big enough to shelter a whole fleet of ships. The legendary British Admiral Horatio, Lord Nelson, is said to have called Mahon's harbor the finest in the world. He is also said to have been so captivated by the island that he brought along Lady Emma Hamilton for a few days of relaxation in the colonial-style Golden Farm mansion that still overlooks the port. British influence lives on in a taste for gin drinking ("Lord Nelson" was one of the brands produced on the island...
...talk show is probably not Western civilization's finest achievement, but if there's any man who has made the most out of this senseless medium, it's Jerry. His program is consistently amusing, and he is unabashedly honest about its utter lack of social worth...
However Chepaila answered with a goal of his own with only 30 seconds remaining to move the score to 7-2 at the end of the first. It was the finest period that Harvard has played this season and no one would have guessed that it would take a clutch goal to win the game...