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...instant Asia's economies cracked last year, Howard Greenspan feared the worst for his bank. As a longtime customer and investor in the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the second largest in Canada, Greenspan knew it was a big player in the Asian derivatives market. The bank would suffer from the Asian fallout, but how much? At the company's annual meeting in January, Greenspan, a Toronto management consultant, asked CIBC chairman Al Flood about the bank's derivatives. But Flood cut him off, and a subsequent attempt was unavailing. So Greenspan took CIBC to court a month later...
...gets worse. Our children's attention spans are too short already, but the Web is a propaganda machine for short attention spans. The instant you get bored, click the mouse, and you're someplace else. Our children already prefer pictures to words, glitz to substance, fancy packaging to serious content. But the Web propagandizes relentlessly for glitz and pictures, for video and stylish packaging. And while it's full of first-rate information, it's also full of lies, garbage and pornography so revolting you can't even describe it. There is no quality control on the Internet...
...while on The Crimson, I have changed my ideological stance from conservative to liberal and back again, with a "neo-" added. This variation in political allegiance, while from a distance it might be interpreted as a bildungsroman, at the instant has led to charges of disloyalty and hypocrisy. To have kept to myself would have prevented my morphing political persuasion from being open to public criticism. Nevertheless, I have continually played the partisan...
...attract and hold such customers, electronic brokers are feverishly building one-stop-shopping sites that offer everything from instant trading to tons of news and data about stocks and mutual funds. Want to check the long-term price performance of General Squid or compare it with Amalgamated Squid? Most sites include links to resources such as Big Charts www.bigcharts.com or StockTools www.stocktools.com that promptly plot the lines. Wall Street City (www.wall streetcity.com lets e-traders rank stocks by price-earnings ratios and popularity with big investors, among other criteria...
...weekend, Independence Day and Men in Black, earned a combined $1.375 billion worldwide. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer's macho movies (The Rock, Con Air) do testosterrific at the wickets. So this Dirty Dozen in outer space will get a rousing send-off. If there's a question, it's about instant deja vu. Armageddon will be the second film this year to star Bruce Willis, to deal with an astral collision--and to destroy the Chrysler building...