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...always been so peachy, and in talking about it, he seems to let down his guard. He admits that only six years ago he'd sunk to a low point. His attempt to make it in the NFL had fizzled and he was living on a "p___-stained mattress" in Alberta, Canada. He says that even now he has few real friends on the WWF circuit. "I like doing things by myself," he tells me. He speaks sincerely of his commitment to learning the acting craft. He reminisces tenderly about the birth of his daughter, whom he describes as being...
...inflation around 1.6%, the real return on cash is a putrid -0.2%. Holding cash has suddenly become a sure way to lose money. Why, then, has Oracle hoarded $5 billion in cash? How come Cisco--which last week raised its earnings projections--has $7.5 billion stuffed under its mattress? And why has Microsoft piled up a mountain of cash $38.2 billion high? Just how rainy a day is Bill Gates expecting, anyway...
...flying brought a drop in air travel, prompting multibillion-dollar bailouts and causing a slump in tourism. This year more struggling airlines are likely to go out of business. The drop in the Dow is another symptom of risk avoidance; we feel safer putting our money under the mattress than putting it in the stock market. Even the entertainment industry is taking no chances, which means more of the same on stage and screen: sequels to sequels to sequels, including the next installment of Harry Potter, the second part of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and more remakes...
...Omar ever returns, he might find things have changed a bit around the house. First of all, about 40 U.S. special forces have moved in. You won't find them testing the Supreme Leader's mattress. They've set up a forest of radio antennas, and they prowl around in desert camouflague on a rooftop beside the spires of Omar's Arabian rococo mosque. The commandos are here to protect the other new tenant of Omar's house: Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's new prime minister. With wrap-around shades, M-16 rifles, lap-tops, and their MRE's full...
...compulsory migration in U.S. history set out for Manzanar, in California's desolate Owens Valley. In the cavalcade were some 300 Japanese aliens and Nisei--U.S. citizens of Japanese blood...In the unfinished, tar-papered dormitories where they will live until the war ends, they made their beds on mattress ticking filled with straw...Some projects with which the Army may keep its guests busy: laying broad-gauge track on the railway down the valley; driving a highway across the Sierras...In San Francisco's Little Tokyo, store fronts were plastered with huge signs, proclaiming, "Evacuation Sale." In one window...