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...Essayist Stanley Crouch is the author of the novel Don't the Moon Look Lonesome
...Stanley Greenspan, author of Building Healthy Minds, says a child's imagination develops in babyhood and is enhanced as kids grow, especially if adults pretend with them and challenge them to become "scriptwriters" in their own dramas, with lots of scenarios, subplots and intrigue. In short, we help them make their own movies. "In later childhood, books leave more room than movies for conjuring," Greenspan says, "but movies can bring literature alive and stir the imagination." Greenspan and others say the most important aspect of movie watching is the conversation after the final credits roll, when kids can be encouraged...
...difficult to transfer to film. What director Chris Columbus has done for moviegoers is to capture characters in an intriguing plot, rich with detail, and give these characters a sense of magic. I have only praise for Rowling and Columbus for entertaining all ages and all intellects. CINDY CAMPBELL Stanley, Kans...
...STANLEY O'NEAL He grew up poor in rural Alabama. Now he is president of MERRILL LYNCH and within three years is expected to become the first African-American CEO of a major Wall Street firm. O'Neal, 50, is already leading a culture change at Merrill by putting profits ahead of old relationships. He has scaled back in Japan (a move others have copied) and is shifting brokers' focus from Main Street to clients with at least $1 million to invest...
...then we had, as Barton Biggs of Morgan Stanley calls it, "a bolt from the blue." A strike right at the heart of world capitalism. And it was a pretty good shot: it leveled two of the biggest buildings in the U.S. and shut down the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ - the world's two biggest stock markets - for four days. The prices of oil, gold and bonds were sent soaring. The London FTSE, the Paris CAC and the German DAX all took double-digit losses in the first few days. By the end of September the news...