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...heartening to publishers throughout the book industry, which has suffered a lackluster season for sales. High-profile disappointments have included the well-reviewed Rose by Martin Cruz Smith and Petru Popescu's Almost Adam, a well-hyped (and widely panned) thriller about early man. Some agents even blame the slump on King for crowding competitors off shelves and best-seller lists with his flotilla of Green Mile installments. Others in the industry see more pandemic ills, citing a trend toward increasingly larger advances paid to authors, and the increasingly larger printings that are subsequently ordered in an eager effort...
...then Gil commits a violent crime (he thinks it will help Bobby shake a batting slump) and abducts the ballplayer's son (he also thinks the man needs a lesson in humility). Since these plot twists exceed any motivations offered, De Niro's performance begins to seem more a matter of well-practiced gestures than real conviction, and the long, silly finale more an exercise in empty panache by director Tony Scott than a truly gripping suspense piece involving people we care about...
Western policymakers are worried that the kingdom's current economic slump is providing new recruits to the ranks of the opposition. Lower oil prices, huge government debts and the staggering $60 billion cost of the war have combined to cut Saudi Arabia's per capita income in half. The soaring population is generating a wave of young, middle-class urbanites who are coming out of strictly religious universities to find there are no jobs for them. Unemployment among young people may be as high as 25%. Set these conditions against the high living and charges of corruption in the House...
...achieved something like sacred status with its followers--and may also have created one of the biggest short-selling debacles in recent Wall Street history. Short sellers, who bet that the price of a stock will fall, thought they saw easy pickings in Iomega's skyrocketing price. Anticipating a slump, they borrowed millions of shares and immediately sold them, hoping to buy shares back later at a cheaper price. The slump never came, as the Fools furiously beat back any attempts made to bad-mouth the stock. According to the Wall Street Journal, the short sellers lost nearly $1 billion...
...last tournament of the season, the Crimson posted its best result of the spring, placing third in a 17-team field. Radtke again finished second with a 148 and Choo emerged from a semester-long slump to place fifth in the final match of his career...