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Excluding the financial sector, which is living through its own nightmarish quarter, the consensus analyst expectation is that S&P 500 earnings will surpass last year's dismal fourth quarter by a slim 1.2%, a figure that may soon fall into negative territory...
...Harvard’s standard issue bookshelf, desk, and bed frame are nowhere to be found. Instead, the heavy wooden desk has been replaced with a slim, steely silver work table. The standard bed frame has been put into storage. Batt has constructed a replacement frame that sits low to the ground...
That includes two-time champion driver Tony Stewart, who picked next season (with unfortunate Wachovia-like timing) to strike out with his own NASCAR team. Stewart is finding slim pickings for sponsorship deals that can run from $15 million to more than $20 million a season. He's had to cover his car with two lead sponsors, when he couldn't find one willing to shell out enough money, and has yet to fully fund his second car piloted by former champion Ryan Newman...
...make his leading lady look good. He gave her an alliterative, movie-star name and devised costumes, lighting tricks and cagey camera angles to hide her abdominal scar, a memento from an earlier car wreck. Linda was no goddess, but neither was she your standard porno skank; she was slim and freckled, and her inexperience on screen played like freshness, innocence. Moreover, the movie itself had such an easygoing good nature that audiences could enjoy it without feeling dirty - more startled and amused...
...inhabiting both characters. Out of the struggle to continually remake himself sprang three distinct on-stage personas: Marshall Mathers (his real name), who raps earnestly about the joys of fatherhood and the oppression of celebrity; Eminem, "the emcee who goes onstage sober and spits his metaphors"; and alter ego Slim Shady, "the guy who shows up after a few shots of Bacardi - and wants to fight." Repressing this last figure is a battle whose victory only comes with maturity. "We've all got Slim Shadys up inside of us," he writes. "Most responsible adults know how to ignore that dude...