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...last few years have held out the promise that the market would go up year after year. This was never an assurance which could be kept. The people who made it took their cash out two years ago and live in an island off the south of France...
...newfound confidence, recently announced plans to lay off 4,000 employees, almost one-fifth of its workforce. Commodity exports - soybeans, steel - are weak. The main stock market is down 25% since September. But Lula, a former shoe-shine boy who heads the leftist Workers Party (PT), has so far kept the good times from becoming a hellish bust. In Brazil, that's nothing short of miraculous...
...self-proclaimed "Emperor of the Universe"--whose 1961 hit song "Mother-in-Law" provided the name for the music lounge the couple would later establish as a New Orleans institution--Antoinette thought it her duty to keep Ernie's memory alive with the life-size likeness she kept at the establishment. The mannequin's hands were removable so that she could take them for periodic manicures, which Ernie often had while alive...
...though, that each of the instrumentalists (trumpet, guitar, keys, and bass) had talent with a special emphasis on the skills of drummer Nick Pope, and the cute lead singer didn’t hurt their chances, even if the PA made her a little hard to hear. Four songs kept the crowd skanking—that knees bent, head-bobbing, white people dance that looks cool when girls do it but really stupid when guys do it, and even started some crowd surfing which amusingly ended in someone’s mom getting kicked in the head. A crowd chant...
...doling out fans to the folks going in. “So,” said Marshall, “they’ve even come into the church.”Mrs. Graham turned with a leer and said, “We’ve kept them in the back but who knows for how long.” Ezekiel stepped even closer to the usher, who was still giving out fans to others walking by. “Why do you still have him, Hill?” Marshall asked Daddy with a smile...