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Globality: Competing With Everyone From Everywhere For Everything By Harold Sirkin, James Hemerling and Arindam Bhattacharya Business Plus; 292 pages...
...Outlook Is Always Bright Here!" I was already feeling grumpy about all this when I watched a lecture by the University of Miami's renowned coastal geologist Harold Wanless. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had predicted a sea-level rise of up to 2 ft. by 2100, but Wanless meticulously explained why 3 ft. to 4 ft. is much more likely - assuming the world can slash carbon emissions enough to slow global warming. I live in Miami Beach, so I didn't care for his PowerPoint slide showing much of Miami Beach under water. "That...
...people feel around the opposite sex. Luke, the dealer, lives on Manhattan's Upper East Side and is on his way to college--his safety school, but still. In Weeds, Mary-Louise Parker's a pot dealer who sells to successful, bored, suburban business types. Even the protagonists of Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantánamo Bay, the closest thing we have to a modern Cheech and Chong, are a banker and a med student. Pot smokers aren't outsiders anymore; at worst, they're arrested adolescents...
Audiences appear ready for such a thing--even beyond those 15 million people, many of prime moviegoing age, who share the protagonists' appetites. Pot films are making out like criminals. The second of Harold and Kumar's trips, not nearly as critically acclaimed as the first, nevertheless did twice as well at the box office. And while the presence of (legal) tobacco cigarettes in films has become a cause célèbre among public-health advocates, there's not a lot of protest that putting pot in movies, even ones as silly as Pineapple Express, glamorizes...
...prison and a $1 million fine on counts of wire fraud. Meanwhile, Rivera and Louisma face separate foreclosure proceedings that may see them losing not only their own personal property but, in Rivera's case, her business. Neither Rivera nor Louisma have entered pleas. But Louisma's lawyer Harold Long told TIME, "This was a pretty extravagant and elaborate scheme. It's really uncertain if [Louisma] knew the parameters of this thing. I think he is prepared to assume responsibility for what he did at some point in time." Acosta has filed a not-guilty plea and cannot do appraiser...