Word: mccoys
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...accounting investigation and is struggling to raise $1 billion from asset sales to stay afloat. But as Elan's chairman and CEO Donal Geaney stepped down last week, along with deputy chairman Tom Lynch, their gloom had not really spread to the rest of Ireland's economy. Danny McCoy, economist at Dublin's Economic and Social Research Institute, notes that the troubles of multinationals like Elan "haven't been that destabilizing because there isn't a huge public exposure to the stock market," and because Ireland remains a destination for firms eager to service the European market. Ireland...
...Winners MAGIC JOHNSON NBA great is nominated to basketball Hall of Fame. Meanwhile, current Laker Jelani McCoy is a lock for the Sepi?s Sandwich Wall of Fame COURTNEY LOVE Mrs. Cobain spared a sanity test in lawsuit filed against her by ex-Nirvana band members. All parties agreed it would be a waste of time MICHAEL EISNER Top mouse sees Disney post $259 million earnings. New theme park attraction, Wall of Fake Breasts, certainly seems to have paid off Losers CHARLES MANSON Killer denied parole for 10th time. We?re surprised: Charles kept his cell tidy, flossed daily...
...post-Sept. 11 environment, India finds itself on a new moral plateau. Its government has vehemently protested Pakistan's active support of armed insurgents-which is well known, even if Islamabad has denied it. In the past, the world paid little attention; it seemed to be a Hatfield and McCoy situation. The U.S. war on terrorism changed that. "It's a different world now," Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes told Time. "Sept. 11 made the U.S. realize the damage that a couple of terrorists can cause." While fearful that New Delhi's military maneuvers would...
...thinks nothing of flirting with a punk who just moved to town from L.A. When he becomes her boyfriend, his punkness and her cheerleaderness are hardly a source of drama at all, while in "Valley Girl," the punk and the popular girl might as well have been Hatfield and McCoy. In "Sugar and Spice," a tight-knit band of cheerleaders consists of a perky prom queen type, a trash-talking convict's daughter, a goodie-two-shoes fundamentalist Christian, and a nerd who gets into Harvard. If they were characters in a movie made ten years ago, they wouldn...
...screening at the White House; then, last week, it was viewed and critiqued by none other than crisis participant FIDEL CASTRO. Costner met with Castro for seven hours and discussed how the film's depiction of the events jibed with the Cuban leader's memories of the real McCoy. "I shouldn't be speaking for [Castro], but he responded to the film very favorably, and we had a very interesting discussion afterward," said a spokesman for Costner, who was swarmed by enthusiastic fans in Havana. What's next? An invitation for the actor to visit with imprisoned ex-President Slobodan...