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...island where Jack has landed, the Governor (Jonathan Pryce) wishes his spirited daughter Elizabeth (Keira Knightley) to marry the local commodore (Jack Davenport). She has eyes for her childhood friend Will Turner (Orlando Bloom). But the island is attacked by pirates more fearsome than the larcenous Jack. The notorious Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) kidnaps Elizabeth to help break a curse on his ship, the Black Pearl. So Jack and Will forge a wary alliance. One wants the ship; the other wants the girl...
...signal to "get out quick." A "Q" means the company is in bankruptcy, and even the pros say figuring out details of who gets what, and when, is difficult. "The information flow can be very sketchy. Management is in turmoil. It's a very imperfect market," says Jonathan Rosenthal, a partner at Saybrook Capital, a Santa Monica, Calif., investment bank that focuses on restructuring bankrupt companies...
...alerting businesses by mail. Those who have paid the AMT in error will have to file an amended return, Form 1120X, to get a refund. "These businesses will now have to spend even more money on tax accountants and attorneys instead of on new equipment or job creation," says Jonathan Collegio, spokesman for the Washington-based advocacy group Americans for Tax Reform...
...first edition, Poor Richard predicts "the inexorable death" of his rival almanac writer Titan Leeds, giving the exact day and hour. It was a prank borrowed from Jonathan Swift. Leeds fell into the trap, and in his own almanac for 1734 (written after the date of his predicted death) called Franklin a "conceited scribbler" who had "manifested himself a fool and a liar." Poor Richard responded that all of these defamatory protestations indicated that the real Leeds must indeed be dead and his new almanac a hoax by someone else. "Mr. Leeds was too well bred...
...Director Jonathan Mostow delivers pretty cool chases, if you like seeing the destruction of innocent cars, buildings and telephone poles. But the movie isn't a patch on the earlier Terminators or Terminator 2: 3D, the gnarly multimedia assault at Universal's theme parks. T3 is best seen as a $175 million campaign ad for Schwarzenegger's bid to be California's next Governor. Tough, buff Arnold helps kids, keeps bad machines from despoiling the environment and saves the state, all without spending the taxpayers' money...