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...Rise of the Lycans establishes Lucian as your basic pulp hero: lumpen nobleman, rabble-rouser and messiah. He's part Jesus, especially in the Gospel according to Mel Gibson (Lucian takes a lashing and keeps on gnashing), and part Spartacus, come to free the slaves - or are they pets - kept by the vampire overlords. In a dungeon or on a dark redoubt, Lucian offers his surly band of rebels "freedom and immortality!" (Wasn't that Tony Blair's campaign slogan when Labour ousted the Tories...
Where rents are on the way down, renters may have room to play hardball - even more so now than during the last downturn. In past cycles, landlords often kept asking prices for rent high, even when they were willing to negotiate with renters one-on-one - with, say, a free month's rent. This time, though, both asking and actual rent prices are falling, according to Reis data. "It looks like landlords are much more willing to lower prices quickly," says Victor Calanog, the firm's director of research. "It's a tenants' market." (See the best business deals...
...lethal combination of mismanagement, overexpansion and economic gloom is driving the boom in retail liquidations. During better days, a company could file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and the banks would finance its operations until the shops could restructure. These so-called debtor-in-possession, or DIP, loans kept the company operating. In the early 1990s, for example, Macy's spent nearly two years in Chapter 11. Today, banks aren't keen to lend to anyone, least of all a retailer in miserable shape. (See the worst business deals...
Even non-industrial groups not yet affected by the recession have kept the 35-hour week - or developed alternatives to it. Executives at the Paris headquarters of communications company Vivendi continue to work 35-hour weeks, or swap it for an arrangement in which extra hours worked can be exchanged for days off. (Vivendi's other workers continue to work under the 35-hour arrangement...
...Past health scares, along with the two terrorist attacks on the island in the past six years, have already kept tourists away from this popular destination. During the regional SARS outbreak in the last decade, for instance, Japanese tourism to the island dropped dramatically. For now, the island's some 330,000 canine residents are being eyed with a new wariness. In the popular Legian area, where a foul stench permeates the strip of bars and clubs along the Double Six Road, the roaming gangs of dogs that have been fixtures in that area pose a new threat...