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...celebrity Wall Street analyst she wants him to track down--not because she misses the creep but because she and her lesbian lover need his child-support checks. The case leads March, a former sheriff's investigator with a dead wife and a shadowy past, into a snake pit of betrayal and double dealing--the paranoid underside of the dotcom boom. Spiegelman worked in financial services and software for more than 20 years before taking up fiction. He knows how thin the air is in New York City's office towers and what breathing too much of it does...
...April 24, mortars begin crashing down on the compound, and the shuddering impacts force the grunts to take cover in their rooftop bunkers. From an alley in the northeast, an insurgent fires a rocket-propelled grenade that slams a wall along the narrow mouth of a sandbagged gun pit. Shards of hot metal penetrate the opening, hitting Corporal Jonathan Wilson. Blood pours down his neck. "Corpsman up, corpsman up," he cries--asking for a medic to head to the roof. He runs downstairs and collapses into the arms of a sergeant...
Owen Wilson voices Lightning McQueen (as in speed and Steve), the hottest rookie on the circuit, and doesn't he know it! He's got drive, heaven knows, but no perspective. Who needs friends, or a pit crew? He's a one-man show! Ka-chow! Lightning's main rivals in the movie's opening race are "the King" (racing legend Richard Petty), who's going for one last win before he retires, and a dirty-driving mug named Chick (Michael Keaton), who's so rotten that one of his sponsor decals reads htB, for Hostile Takeover Bank...
...open grounds and situate themselves for an afternoon of laid-back Ivy League polo.There will be almost 70 ponies. But no college kids to ride them. That’s the whole point of the Ivy Cup Charity Polo Match, scheduled for Saturday, May 20th. It will pit alumni teams from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Cornell against one another in the spirit of old school altruism and good-natured competition.The annual tournament is in its fifth year, although this is the first time Princeton and Cornell are participating. Previously, it was just an outlet for the Harvard-Yale rivalry, according...
...successfully incorporated into entertainment media like the Simpsons, said Shearer. “But only if you don’t try to tell the audience what to think in the third act,” he added. Shearer said a Simpsons episode planned for next season will pit Ned Flanders against creationism—a hot topic lately due to the intelligent design debates. O’Donnell, who served as the Democratic Chief of Staff of the Senate Committee on Finance from 1993 to 1995, depicted his make-believe White House as a place to debate political issues...