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...rookie Justice on a divided Supreme Court. The pilot is earnest and jargon laden, like producer John Wells' ER and The West Wing--and as stiff and colorless as a freshly starched robe. A big problem is Field's Kate Nolan, a dull, middle-of-the-road pillar of common sense whose tough streak Field undercuts with her doe-eyed, first-day-of-school demeanor. There are hints of intrigue, but the lifeless characters and boilerplate dialogue need judicial review...
...Despite written assurances that the new owner would "quickly raise the quality of production and create a pillar industry," Wang suspected the new boss was really after his plant's assets. The factory stood along a tree-lined boulevard near a shopping district: a perfect place to build apartments, and the new owner was a property developer. There was no evidence of foul play in the sale of the power equipment plant, but if the new owner were to scrap the factory and make a killing, the workers wanted decent payouts...
...wealthy folks piled into venture-capital funds at the peak of tech mania two years ago, and they have seen nothing but red ink. Last year such funds declined about 40% on average. The other pillar of what's known as private equity--leveraged-buyout funds--has had problems too, losing about 20% in 2001. Together, these are the worst returns on record for an exclusive class that often carries investment minimums of $1 million for access to the best managers. When the game goes this bad, what's a well-heeled investor...
...years ago - the van Goghs, Rockefeller Center, national confidence - add one more: the comforting, all-accepted platitude. You don't hear the whens, hows or ifs of economic recovery anymore: the unspoken question these days is whether some seismic collapse is on the near horizon. Lifetime employment, a pillar of the Japanese miracle, has been supplanted by the specter of lifetime underemployment for today's twentysomethings and brutally early retirement for the salarymen who rose out of that rubble. A lot of Japanese are shaking their heads and muttering, "Times are bad, but ..." and the sentence goes unfinished...
...ironically, a central pillar of Phelps’s philosophy is not very different from that of the gay community: people cannot change their sexual orientation. And while Houston and Grizzle try to disseminate the idea that people can change, at least one Harvard student believes he provides living proof that sexual orientation is a plastic human trait...