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There are some glimpses of the old Bridget: smart, funny, wholly lacking in decorum. In one of the most compelling indictments against private education ever set forth on screen, Bridget describes Darcy’s alma mater, Eton, as “one of those fascist institutions where they stick a poker up your arse which you’re not allowed to take out for the rest of your life.” She takes on the uptight lawyers at one of Darcy’s work functions, railing against their tiresome Tory belief systems but oblivious to their...
Here's a promising screen: we looked for dividend yields of between 2% and 4% (the S&P 500's yield is 1.68%), long-term earnings growth of better than 10% and a consistent hike in dividends. We looked too at the payout ratio--the percentage of earnings that is paid out in dividends. The lower the ratio, the easier it is for companies to meet their dividend obligations. Payout ratios vary by industry, but generally speaking, 50% or more is considered sizable; 75% or higher may be a red flag...
...handhelds, the Tungsten T5 and the Treo 650 PDA phone. The 650 is not a radical redesign of the immensely popular Treo 600--appearance-wise, it's actually hard to tell the older model from the new one--but it is an all around improvement. The LCD screen looks better in sunlight, and the internal memory holds data even after the battery has drained. With certain service providers, the new Treo will be able to access a fast data network known as EDGE, giving it better-than-dial-up speeds for surfing or downloading files. It also supports Bluetooth networking...
Upsizing is the theme of the $400 Tungsten T5. With an enlarged screen and 256 MB of internal memory, it's a better desktop-to-go than its predecessors. Managing your files is easier too: instead of using complicated, time-consuming software to synch up documents, you can just drag them from PC to PDA and back again.--By Wilson Rothman
...Bruckheimer, who as producer of Top Gun and Pirates of the Caribbean knows how well American audiences like a spectacle. CSI looks like high-quality TV, which is to say, it looks expensive. Bruckheimer and his associates talk about creating "feature television"--delivering a movie experience on the small screen. And when Bruckheimer talks about the movie experience, he ain't talking about Lost in Translation. "It has to do with engaging your senses," he says. "It's not only titillating you with the visuals and the design and the cinematography, which we do, but the audio--sound effects...