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...Ladies, keep your hands on the juice, ’cause there’s wackos on the loose,” Stan the Man admonished a group of students at the Yenching Auditorium yesterday night, referring to the prevalence of date-rape drugs in college social scenes...
...characters in a one man show entitled You the Man, Stan offered other rhyming bits of advice about how men could react to situations involving sexual violence, ranging from discussing how to intervene in unhealthy relationships to how to actively participate in the prevention of sexual assault...
...particular attention to debt. Stan Majcher, portfolio manager for Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management in Los Angeles, warns that if a company trades below $2 and carries a heavy debt load, the chances of long-term survival fade. With plenty of cash and a sensible strategy, the odds are better. That's why Majcher likes Gateway, an unpopular view among some analysts. Its stock is trading 95% off its peak, after a series of missteps. Majcher expects PC sales to pick up eventually. With zero debt and $1 billion in cash on its balance sheet, Gateway is an unlikely candidate...
...prompted a 70% rise in crude prices. The Saudis' vast reserves give them the power to manage the worldwide price of oil, making them critical to the smooth running of the global economy. But with promising new oil sources opening up in Russia and Central Asian states like Kazakh- stan and Azerbaijan, the U.S. has alternatives it didn't have in 1973. Oil-industry analysts believe that cutting the flow of Saudi oil to the U.S. would be painful--but far from fatal--to the U.S. economy...
...time, the Astaires' stage stardom could be attributed to snob appeal and second-balcony myopia. The fuss must have been about Adele. Look at her brother. In long shot Fred's body photographed small, fragile, bewildered. In close-up he looked - and, in moments of earthbound repose, acted - like Stan Laurel. Thus the famous pronouncement on Astaire's first screen test: "Can't act. Can't sing. Balding. Can dance a little." But oh, how he danced! That was evident from his second film, "Flying Down to Rio" (1933), when he was paired with a perky chorine named Ginger Rogers...