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...girl get closer to marriage, unexpected opposition emerges from Ana Luisa's black maid Mercé (Rita Montaner), who has raised her selflessly since infancy; Ana Luisa believes she is an orphan. José Carlos, who has much more affection for Mercé than Ana Luisa does, tries charming her with odd endearments: "my soot cloud," "my little tar ball," and "You are a refined black lady, you were made of the finest coal where diamonds are extracted from." Her reason for fighting the betrothal is that she is Ana Luisa's mother, though she has never told the girl...
Trading volume at the Chicago Merc has been thin so far, with interest in Miami, New York City and Los Angeles far eclipsing Denver, Chicago and Boston. But a slow start is often the case with derivatives. Shiller, who helped design the housing-price indexes the Merc contracts are based on, points to S&P 500 futures, which were half-heartedly received in 1982 but today are a Merc staple. For housing futures, the exchange is already looking to add more cities and contracts past 2007; homebuilders who want to hedge new subdivisions have requested the longer horizon. The Chicago...
...want you to know what I'm driving," she says bluntly. Yet Murphy, 42, has a nagging worry: she has been reading and hearing about all sorts of reliability problems afflicting recent Mercedes models, from engine failure to unsightly brake dust. "All my life I wanted to have a Merc, and unfortunately, now that I can finally afford one, they're in the tank," she says. At a Mercedes dealer in Atlanta, the sales staff even joked about reliability, she says, noting that Mercedes still beats Kia cars in reliability tables. She gripes, "They should instead be saying, 'This...
...Dirty Tricks ("You'll never again have to 'grin and bear it' when inconsiderate creeps do you dirty"; $12.95) while sipping coffee from a Soldier of Fortune mug ($7.95) and relaxing on a military cot ($99.50). The classifieds bristle with notices from mercenaries, some less discreet than others (MERC FOR HIRE, advertised a man named Dan. NEED WORK FAST). Gung-ho types who apply directly to the magazine are warned that enlisting soldiers of fortune within the U.S. is against the law. Brown maintains, however, that he can publish the ads because he is merely acting as a conduit...
Meanwhile, in the trading pits of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, there were further signs of trouble. The Merc is a forward market that allows cattlemen and feedlot owners to hedge the price they will get for their products and offset some of the normal business risks. The traders provide the liquidity for that risk. But mad cow is anything but normal. James Brooks, floor-operations manager for the nation's largest cattle-futures trader, R.J. O'Brien, says the atmosphere is tense. "People are stressed out. Tempers are short. Nerves are shot," says Brooks. "We're seeing small fights break...