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Richard Corliss's article about Netflix was obviously written based on big-city experience [Aug. 10]. What about small-city dwellers and rural folks who do not have a large choice of movies or a movie theater nearby? I'm a big fan of Netflix. I've never had any delay in delivery, and I enjoy a wide choice of foreign movies, old and new. Netflix is a service I could not live without. Therese Namenek, LYNCHBURG...
...Wild West out there.' ROBERT GOTTHEIM, district manager for Manhattan Congressman Jerrold Nadler, on the treacherous airspace above the Hudson River, where a helicopter collided with a small plane on Aug. 8, killing all nine people on both aircraft...
...there's no happier sound. And no matter how long people get together to listen to music, there won't be another moment when singer, song and audience merge so completely. For a few days, a generation of people got high with their friends. It sounds like a small thing, until you hear...
...feature offered by some exchanges that allows high-volume traders the advantage of posting orders for up to half a second and then removing them - have drawn the ire of the authorities. Related revelations about the high-speed, almost fully computerized nature of modern stock markets have occasioned no small amount of fear and loathing. (See pictures of a Madoff family album...
...fear may be justified, the loathing less so. Stock-trading in the U.S. was long dominated by a cartel (the NYSE) that charged exorbitant fees and stifled competition. That cozy arrangement began to fall apart in the early 1970s with the birth of the Nasdaq electronic exchange for small stocks. The rapid growth of Nasdaq companies like Intel and Microsoft, coupled with Madoff's poaching of orders from the NYSE in the 1980s and '90s, brought more direct competition. Now things have broken wide open. Nasdaq and the NYSE are still the biggest players, but they must do daily battle...