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...shrugging relativists at the FASB suggest, Greenspan isn't looking at a fundamentally different economy, as the NAPM manufacturing numbers suggest. If the businesses have to lead us out of this thing while consumers take a short break, the corporate bleeding may already be stopping. The patient is wobbly, but it seems he's likely to pull through after all. For three years he's been on the whip end of the economy's wild ride, just missing every twist and turn - why should he do perverted things to the money supply if life is already going on? The rate...
...experts also agree, however, that they must rethink their assumptions. The Sept. 11 attacks took patient planning and training; no terrorist group had ever carried out so complex a mission. "I was not at all alarmist about this threat based on the historical record," says Jonathan Tucker of the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Washington, "but given what happened, we need to reassess the threat...
...hospital for the relative ease and comfort of a lucrative private practice. His gift for treating teenagers attracts the attention of Patrick Koster (Sean Bean), a sinister bank robber who kidnaps the psychiatrist’s daughter and holds her hostage while Conrad works with a deeply disturbed mental patient...
...That patient is Elisabeth Burrows (Brittany Murphy), a violent schizophrenic whose knowledge of a mysterious six-digit combination makes her the center of Koster’s next plot. Early scenes between Conrad and his new patient are surprisingly tense. Having been shown photographs of Burrows’ most recently brutalized victim, Conrad approaches the sedated patient with an unsteady resolve reminiscent of a timid Clarice Starling first approaching Hannibal Lecter...
Fortunately for Conrad and his daughter, plausibility becomes less and less of an issue as the hour grows near. Though his deeply psychotic patient has allegedly been in and out of mental wards for the past decade, Conrad takes roughly 20 minutes (no exaggeration necessary) to figure out what’s really troubling...