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...used-car salesman knows things about the vehicle you're eyeing that would make you run from his lot--and he isn't sharing. There are only two ways to beat him: avoid him entirely or bring your own mechanic to look under the hood. The same may be said of Wall Street analysts. Best to ignore them because of what they know and won't tell. Our deepest suspicions were confirmed in recent weeks as New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer went public with private e-mails he had subpoenaed from Merrill Lynch. Those messages told a story very...
...bleak, the outlook for Alex and Cindi Ignatovsky, both 33, could not be much brighter. After trying out a number of different careers, the Aptos, Calif., couple have recently discovered their true callings. Alex, who had been a paralegal and had also done a brief stint as an insurance salesman, has just started working as a juvenile-probation officer, helping kids wend their way through the crowded criminal-justice system. Cindi, who previously was an editor and a graphic designer, is now busy finishing up an intensive, multiyear program to become an acupuncturist. In her view, as she puts...
...vaccine, a patient declared onscreen, my cancer is in total remission. Then there was the sales pitch McGee delivered in person. When she and the doctor met with a prospective patient, says Mathias, who worked as his research nurse, he would come on like a used-car salesman: "'We have the best vaccine out there,'" she remembers his saying. "'Two-thirds of my patients have responded to the treatment.'" He was even giving the drug to his father-in-law, he would tell people; that's how good...
...more heartfelt than the other--are in order for two ambitious films about people trying to stay in control when they are at work or out of it. The more conventional of the two, Changing Lanes, is about two men--slick lawyer Gavin (Ben Affleck) and harried insurance salesman Doyle (Samuel L. Jackson)--who collide on a Manhattan highway while rushing to respective court appointments. Gavin needs to secure judicial approval of his firm's right to manage a dead man's billions; Doyle hopes to win back his separated wife and his kids. Gavin heedlessly drives off, leaving Doyle...
...stealing a cauliflower. The prosecution said that despite his advanced age - he was 89 at the time of the trial - a life sentence was necessary as a deterrent to neo-Nazis in modern Germany. Malloth had lived most of his life quietly in northern Italy, where he was a salesman for an electrical-goods company...