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Stocks have momentum again, and even though the market cooled a bit last week, some on Wall Street are daring to speak of--gulp--a record-high Dow Jones industrial average, which is just a 9% gain away. Yet even if that pans out, here's one bull-market relic that won't be making a comeback anytime soon: the celebrity mutual-fund manager...
Marianne (Marianne Sägebrecht) has a little trouble getting dates. Heaven knows why: she weighs in the low 200s, has a face as remorseless as a gulag commandant's and works as a corpse dresser in a Munich mortuary. Then one day she lays eyes on Eisi (Eisi Gulp), a dishy young subway conductor. Lust at first sight has rarely been so transforming. Marianne's stolid features crack into a swooning smile. Armed with subway schedules and candy bars and tarted up in a dress that must have come from Friedrich's of Heidelberg, she prowls the underground...
...Celebrity Slams Go Fug Yourself gofugyourself.typepad.com A daily shredding of the sartorial choices of Hollywood stars, complete with photographic evidence. To wit: Parts of Courtney Love's new, larger body "are sort of sloshing around, uncontained, like a Big Gulp spilling all over your gear shift when you take a turn too fast." Chloe Sevigny proves "high-waisted pants are the spawn of Satan's sewing machine...
...come to the Firstie Club, a rarity for him. He sips his beer as others gulp. Cadets from his company squeeze into the booth and talk excitedly. Some look back: Remember the kid who brought a skateboard to Air Assault School? Others look ahead. Pae is looking forward to posting to his unit in Germany. Great weekend trips. His parents had wanted him to post to Korea, but Pae resisted. Units in Korea are just as likely as units in Germany to deploy to Iraq, he told them. What Pae didn't tell his parents was just how ready...
When a draft agreement containing these radical reforms was presented to the union's leaders in early July, they found it too much to swallow in one gulp. Peter Kelly, head of U.A.W. Local 160, in Warren, Mich., said that the plan "could lead to the demise of the U. A. W union movement as we know it." He complained that the proposal would destroy the seniority system, in which the best jobs go to workers with the longest service. Kelly pointed out that while job security would be guaranteed for 80% of Saturn's workers, the remaining 20% could...