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...Firm as a rainmaker. A rainmaker is someone who, due to their social status, can attract big-name clients. Hillary's status was based solely on her husband's rise through the Arkansas political establishment. Incidentally, while at the Rose firm, she used her time productively, managing to mire herself in a number of highly questionable savings and loans deals. You may recall that during a federal investigation a few years back, the records of one of these deals mysteriously surfaced in her domain of the White House residence...
...usual, partners Riggs and Murtaugh have found themselves a few nefarious bad guys. Dogged investigation and Murtaugh's offer of shelter to a few of the refugees mire the duo and their families deep in the machinations of the fearsome Chinese Triad gang. Busting the Triad's multifaceted criminal empire proves to be a tall order for the aging cops, who turn an old catch phrase of Murtaugh's into a new mantra now that running and fighting are taking a heavy toll on wellworn joints: "We're not too old for this shit...
...other leaders of the G-8 nations arrive in England for their annual summit this week, they will be greeted by the famously toothy smile of British Prime Minister Tony Blair. They will switch on their smiles too, but mostly for show. Bill Clinton is stuck in the mire of the Lewinsky matter. Germany's Helmut Kohl is facing a September election he may not survive. Japan's Ryutaro Hashimoto is struggling to keep his government and his country's economy from collapsing. Boris Yeltsin is in poor health and is a political lame duck...
...overcome the dark past he depicts and build the harmony that we so desperately seek. It is a shame that the President's initiative on race has, thus far, been equally devoid of substance. Nonetheless, any attempt to find solutions to our current predicament in Amistad will only further mire us in useless guilt and silly symbolic gestures. The only legitimate lesson that weepy moviegoers should take away from this holiday season is this: Beware unsinkable ships...
...mundane. Morgan Stanley has always considered such "retail" brokerage a pauper's enterprise. It has stuck with raising capital for the world's largest companies and advising them on what to do with same. Individual investors? Phew. Morgan bankers wouldn't soil their wing tips in that mire...