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...analysts don't always get it right, of course, and many stuck far too long with stocks that plunged. This could be yet another false bottom. Three times since the Dow's descent began in January 2000 the market appeared ready to turn higher, only to suck in investors and saddle them with more losses. And a bottom does not signal an uninterrupted ride to higher ground. "After 20 years of a bull market, the bottoming process could take a long time," cautions Wallace Weitz, manager of Weitz Value fund. "The Dow could trade in this range...
...Alex Rocco as a man whose wife the gang raped; a cameo by Meyer as the sexist sheriff who snaps, as regards Rocco's wife, "Nothin' happened to her a woman's not built for!"; and the legendary snake-venom scene where Rocco instructs leading lady Haji to "Suck it! Suck it out!") Finally, "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!", which doesn't need my exclamation points, since it comes with three of its own, and which film director and cultural garbalogist John Waters proclaimed "the best movie ever made...
...contact worth it? At the time, many didn't think so. In the last years of Yeltsin's rule, he had become an always ailing, often drunk figure at the head of a corrupt state and chaotic economy. Why suck up to such a man? Talbott--a former editor at TIME who was a key policymaker on Russia throughout the Clinton years, ending up as Deputy Secretary of State--makes a convincing case for taking Yeltsin seriously. In his telling, Clinton's Russian policy was motivated above all by realism. Clinton and his team knew that Yeltsin wasn't perfect...
...baby's "calming reflex." Follow the "five S's," says Karp: 1) Swaddle the baby (using Karp's special tight technique); 2) place the baby on his side or stomach; 3) shush him loudly; 4) swing or bounce him rhythmically; and 5) give him something to suck on. Even dads can do it. --By Sora Song
First, athletics have toughened me up. From the overt physicality of sport, one eventually adopts the ability to suck it up and deal. Sports are often unpleasant. From the despised suicide sprints at the end of an exhausting basketball practice to the disagreeable predicament of playing 18 holes in a downpour, sports have forced me to perform physical tasks that I so completely did not want...