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Mathers, 66, has seen the land ravaged by the plow, the water sucked from the aquifers and wasted, the oil and mining industries nose-dive, and the children of the plains rush for the rural exits. He was in the Montana legislature for 20 years...
...voting, as in dining halls, sometimes you just have to pinch your nose and swallow hard...
...always known that New Kids teen idol Donnie Wahlberg is a grimy sleazeball who can't sing or dance to save his nose ring. We've known that he is a deluded egomaniac who told a fluff biographer that 1969 would be remembered in history as the year Donnie Wahlberg was born. (Wasn't there some inconsequential tidbit about a man on the moon that year, too?) We've known that he is a temperamental prima donna who allegedly attacked some Georgia Tech students whose frisbee had the audacity to land near his motorcycle...
...Friday markets generally steadied as traders and investors began to suspect that the earlier nose dive had been an overreaction: nothing so absolutely awful had happened yet. In Manhattan the Dow Jones industrial average climbed 49 points to a close of 2532.92 -- still down 112 points, or 4.2%, for the week and more than 460 points, or 16%, below its July 16 high of just under 3000. But no one could be sure that the worst was over. Some markets, notably bonds, kept right on going down. More important, the threat of war has not begun to fade...
...Asian-American actors. Frozen, for the nonce, was the record $25 million the show had banked in advance ticket sales. Like the event it put to music, Miss Saigon was becoming a no-win war with a high body count. And each combatant was ready to cut off his nose to spite his race...