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...likely to give you five Star Wars and three Spider-Mans. Artisan Entertainment CEO Amir Malin is concerned. "Some good word-of-mouth films may be squeezed out by some of these blockbuster films. It could be a very good film, but it may not have the dry powder available to open up with a huge performance...
...York attorney general Eliot Spitzer went public with private e-mails he had subpoenaed from Merrill Lynch. Those messages told a story very different from the one Merrill was telling its chumps, er, brokerage clients. Several analysts privately described as "horrible," "a piece of junk" and a "powder keg" stocks that they had publicly urged investors to buy--under pressure to help Merrill win investment-banking business from the firms behind those stocks...
...week the Environmental Protection Agency will issue a crucial report on a plan to extract natural gas from an area in the Rocky Mountains four times the size of the proposed Arctic refuge site. The Administration says 25 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas is buried in Wyoming's Powder River Basin--enough to supply the U.S. for a year and worth up to $46 billion to energy companies. The Administration wants to green-light the drilling of more than 35,000 new methane wells in the basin by November. But environmentalists, along with local ranchers, are waging a fierce...
...steps leading to the summit zig, zag, and turn in spirals, passing meditation cells, shrines and small shops selling everything from tourist trinkets to fragrant thanakha logs?from which Burmese women grind their traditional face powder. Monkeys cavort along the path?cute from a distance but downright terrifying when they bare their teeth and hiss. Be warned: while eating pork or cursing may offend the nats, a bag of cookies in your back pocket is a sure invitation to an attack by monkeys...
...Maoists. I spoke to several young girls held prisoner in Nepalgunj jail accused of belonging to the guerrillas' political wing. All told the same story of the police keeping them blindfolded for weeks, sometimes months, beating the soles of their feet with plastic piping, then rubbing chili powder into the wounds. Nor are the security forces above murder. On March 18, a group of 20 policemen arrested five men, including Kanchha Dangol?a carpenter?in Tokha outside Kathmandu. Four days later Dangol's body surfaced at a nearby hospital: he had been beaten, slashed, then shot in the chest...