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...issued about as often as famine warnings. Out of some 7,500 current recommendations on S&P 500 stocks, only 1% are "sells," according to Zacks Investment Research. "Analysts are the most relentlessly optimistic people in the world," says NASAA executive director Marc Beauchamp. "They make Pollyanna seem like Hamlet." Some regulators are calling for industry guidelines to expand analysts' conflict-of-interest disclosures...
Village by village, Mexico is hollowing out. Fidel Guevara, 39, left his farming hamlet of Manlio Fabio Altamirano, 25 miles west of Veracruz city, five years ago and worked on a farm in New Era, Ore. He moved back last year only because he missed his wife and daughters. His son Hector, 18, is still in Oregon, making $7 an hour at a plant nursery. Guevara's return hasn't been perfect. He says he is lucky to make $6 a week in his butcher shop. His wife Matilde Diaz, 40, chokes back tears over her son's absence...
...Pryce, who has played the lead in everything from Hamlet to Miss Saigon, clearly has found a way to make this role his own. For one thing, Pryce's professor is decidedly more energetic than Harrison's. He prances up a 6-m library ladder, dances over couches and chairs, and races up and down a spiral staircase, singing all the while. Yes he sings. The lyrics of such famous songs, mostly spoken by Harrison, like Why Can't a Woman Be More like a Man? and I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face are reborn with Pryce...
...FOLKLORE AND MYTHOLOGY www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html TALL TALES Read the original story of Hamlet - it's weird! - and find a Japanese Cinderella from this exhaustive compendium of legends and myths...
...HAMLET The most controversial production of Shakespeare all year was Andrei Serban's brash, sometimes wacky (three ghosts of Hamlet's father) but always engrossing off-Broadway update. And Liev Schreiber was a charismatic and memorable Dane...