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...Tempers are short. Nerves are shot," says Brooks. "We're seeing small fights break out. People are having words." The dramatic drop in futures prices--down more than 20% from Dec. 17 to Dec. 24--"wiped away billions of dollars' worth of equity in the industry," he says. One ray of hope: last Friday's market closed up after five straight losing days...
...That?s what men said, in a defensive, defiant or ironic voice. The magazine had text too, though it wasn?t likely to be thumb-tacked to a fraternity wall. ?You can?t see the forest for the tease,? Ray Bradbury said on ?Playboy?s 50th Anniversary Party,? a self-celebrating special on A&E. Forget about the naked ladies. Let?s talk about Playboy: The Words...
...much New Yorker fiction had a sere, affectless style - embodied (or disembodied) by the stories of Donald Barthelme - that spoke to a narrow band of Manhattan intelligentsia. Playboy spread its net to include all forms of fiction, from Styron and Ken Kesey to the science fiction of Ray Bradbury and Philip K. Dick. Further, The New Yorker could intimidate readers into accepting its crabby tone, because the magazine knew best; it really was written for a certain kind of New Yorker. Playboy had to sell each story to consumers from every level of sophistication. They bought the magazine to look...
...mean economic and political climate. A proper lady with few practical skills, Ada is saved by the arrival of the can-do mountain gal Ruby Thewes (Renee Zellweger). As Ada passes her Ruby Thewes days struggling to keep her farm from failing and the local bully Teague (Ray Winstone) from pressing his lurid attentions on her, Inman meets all manner of strangers--good witches and bad, a rogue (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and a young widow (Natalie Portman). Inman shows how fleeing a war can be an act of love, Ada how staying at home is an act of courage...
...they dial operators. BT says cable users can save €155 a year; decent but not up to VoIP's potential. Eventually, BT, AT&T et al. could market local service in foreign countries. For consumers, that's worth phoning home about. - By Mark Halper Southern France's Ray Of Hope Citizens in the southern French town of Cadarache will be paying close attention to talks in Washington this week aimed at choosing the site for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), the world's biggest and most ambitious fusion-energy project. Wearing the E.U.'s colors, Cadarache is competing...