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...stopped being skittish about the company's future. "They need to get their road map stabilized," says Kevin Krewell, editor in chief of Microprocessor Report,a trade magazine. "People in the industry count on Intel to know where it's going. If it swings wildly around, the market gets nervous...
...called groups like Simcox's "immigrant hunters," and President Bush said last week, "I'm against vigilantes." Jennifer Allen of the Border Action Network says she is preparing a human-rights complaint against the U.S. government for "failing to prosecute vigilante groups." Local officials in Arizona are nervous about hundreds of Minuteman volunteers coming from out of state, and Michael Nicely, head of the Border Patrol's Tucson sector, says the Minuteman Project will "hamper border safety...
...alma mater should not define us. The name Harvard creates unrealistic expectations in those we meet and in ourselves. I used to get so nervous when non-Harvard people I would meet expected me to have an almost supernatural wisdom or intelligence. As Conan O’Brien ’85 lamented in his 2000 Harvard Commencement address...
...Superstar investors contemplating the frothier realms of the market should be getting nervous. Indiabulls, a financial-services firm that hopes to profit as wealthier Indians buy more stocks, has seen its shares quintuple since last fall, while shares of Pantaloon Retail?a chain of clothing stores, malls and supermarkets?have risen eighteenfold in two years as investors bet on the spending power of the Indian shopper. But such gains are less a reflection of unlimited promise than of limited supply, with investors bidding up the few stocks that offer a way to play these trends...
...entire room of heads painted by both artists. Bacon's 1971 Selfportrait shares some Cubist influences with Picasso's 1909 Head of a Man. But in almost every case Bacon's portraits reflect more motion, energy and distortion - and deliver a fiercer punch to the nervous system...