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...second half, the Berklee audience responded with a standing ovation filled with screams and whistles. Despite the audience's rather explicit requests for an encore, Rollins waved his fist in the air in a show of solidarity with his fans and hurried off without playing another note. Despite their apparent disappointment at being deprived of a bonus tune, one thing is for certain-no one sitting in that audience will ever consider 70 old again...
...room. She politely asks the reporter who is with her for permission to light a cigarette and then proceeds to chain-smoke for the duration of the interview. She smiles readily and laughs often, but something soft and vulnerable in her seems to clench reflexively - like a baby's fist around an adult's finger - when personal questions are raised. She exhales anxious gray smoke. She's not the interview type...
...other hand (in the markets there's always another hand, usually a fist), if this really is an investing world again, where valuations and P/E ratios count, there are plenty of companies like high-flying Juniper Networks whose numbers are way too high. The companies have delivered on their earnings - that's why they're still flying - but by the usual, pre-bubble calculations these guys may not be quite done with their comeuppance...
...other hand (in the markets there's always another hand, usually a fist), if this really is an investing world again, where valuations and P/E ratios count, there are plenty of companies like high-flying Juniper Networks whose numbers are way too high. The companies have delivered on their earnings - that's why they're still flying - but by the usual, pre-bubble calculations these guys may not be quite done with their comeuppance...
...concept-interchangeable and a dime a dozen. Ironic, isn't it? They're not bad people, these Pearl Girls. They're just, well, intolerable. But their reign over campuses like Harvard, urban meccas like New York and popular culture is indisputable. Snotty girls rule with attitude and an iron fist. Not only will they be the next editors of Jane and Vanity Fair, but they will also marry rich investment bankers, demand lifetime memberships at exclusive country clubs, buy homes in the Hamptons, and eventually be able to tell the difference between brands of caviar and champagne...