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...CHRISTMAS WISH] Third DreamWorks film is its first monster...
...courses in Kabbalah and related Jewish mysticism in places as diverse as Sudbury, Mass., and Boca Raton, Fla. Academic involvement in the discipline has multiplied, as have tangential pop artifacts like the best-selling Bible Code and an X-Files episode about a golem, the Jewish proto-Frankenstein monster. Publishers are turning out dozens of titles on subjects ranging from arcana to kids' Kabbalah. Most intriguing, mysticism is increasingly viewed as the answer to what United Jewish Appeal officer Alan Bayer calls "a hungry, thirsty, bottle-of-water-in-the-desert need for connection with transcendent meanings" among ordinary Jews...
...office sales in record time. In music, Sony's record division continues to churn out profits, even though the industry is downbeat. Sony's PlayStation game player has blown away Nintendo. And Sony still sells $23.28 billion worth of audio-video equipment. Its second quarter was a monster, with sales rising 20.6% to $13.6 billion and income rising 60% to $464 million, from the same quarters...
...months ago literary critics were busying themselves trying to invent new synonyms for epic and powerful. These efforts--putting a serious premium on thesauruses nation wide--were sparked by the appearance of Don Dellio's Underworld. In that monster tome Dellio juggles the stories of multiple historic and non-historic characters, all the while mining the existential freak-show of the later 20th century for all its tragic, ironic and surreal material...
...know it was the bottom? Conventional wisdom has it that IBM's massive buyback triggered the optimism. But those of us in the trenches know that it was a Merrill Lynch monster buy order of Pepsi, entered at 9:31 a.m. by the beverage company itself, that convinced many scared traders that they had better start buying. The cool calm of Pepsi opening flat--most other stocks indicated a $3 or $4 dip--changed everything. Within seconds after the opening bell, Pepsi let it be known that it would General-Jackson its own stock, standing there, Stonewall-like, right under...