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...Cramer throws furniture, pushes buttons to make campy sound-effects and graphics flash across the screen, and takes up to 25 calls from viewers wanting stock advice in the ten-minute “Lightning Round” segment. He is also co-founder of TheStreet.com, an online stock research company worth $15 million, and Cramer Berkowitz, a $450 million hedge fund...
...latter of whom enjoyed great success over the summer with “The 40-Year-Old Virgin”—incorporate real elements from contemporary American life. They showcase a speech made by George W. Bush from 2000, promising economic stability; when we flash forward to the uncertain present, we can understand the reasons corporate yuppies might turn to crime. Despite (or perhaps because of) its premise that crime pays, “Fun with Dick and Jane” is a welcome energetic, inoffensive romp—use it as an escape after...
McCarthy ran for President four more times, to little note. Some aides complained of his diffidence and cynicism. Yet in one lightning flash, he had diagnosed the national exhaustion that a dead-end war brings and proved that antiwar fervor could change voters' minds. This was not so much political strategy as the almost theological mission of the amateur philosopher and published poet McCarthy was. Lines from his poem "Vietnam Message" could be the words of Gandhi or Pablo Neruda: "We will take our napalm and flame throwers/ out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
...graver-than-thou in their millenarian hopes that the University and alumni will cough up a total of $12 million to fund an endowment to improve undergraduate life. If only they were making a joke—are they?—they would have my vote in a flash. Whether it be the fabricated personas—candidates touted as reformers, or outsiders, or people with experience—or megalomaniacal schemes, there is something surreal about the orgiastic frenzy of these people playing pretend. (Guys, wait 20 years and run for Senate.)It is lamentable that someone must...
WAVE CASH GOODBYE New credit cards and fobs let you buy meals and movies without a signature. Just wave your device near terminals equipped with no-swipe technology. Here are some of the new flash cards...