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...Jerry O'Connell) who lends his name to the increasingly inaccurate title is an Iowa boy trying to make it in a decidedly bad New York City, where violence is so rampant that the population number falls before our eyes. In perhaps the most implausible sequence even of this movie, he lands a rent-controlled--and roach-controlled--apartment. Joe then spends his time split unevenly between getting a job and fighting off his militant, singing infestation. Then the country-folk-meets-city-folk story quickly gets on an even simpler track when Joe sees his dream girl, Lily (Megan...
...others, the shake-out in IPO prices could signal a return to sanity that will strengthen the market over the long run. "There was rampant speculation this spring that needed to be dampened," says Robert Natale, who directs research on new issues at Standard & Poor's. Perhaps IPO investors will learn, as Buzz Lightyear did, that there is life even after the bubble bursts. --Reported by Bernard Baumohl/New York
...mall employee, who asked not to be identified, says that although he believes gangs have been expelled from the mall, packs of youths continue to "run rampant" during the day when they should be in school...
...People became interested in the group when they would see issues that they felt strongly about. In the last few years the issues have become less rampant, and there has been less of a need for an organization of this nature," Hauser says...
...course, these changes have not come easily, and reform is under great strain. Most Russians have felt the pain of economic dislocation, rampant crime and corruption. Many have been disillusioned by a lack of accountability in government and by the brutal war in Chechnya...