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Atta had grown more sullen about his life prospects. His old friend Khalifa ran into him on a Cairo street one day in 1999. He found Atta depressed about not having a career or a family back home. Atta said he had made few German friends. "I think he felt that he had just been studying all those years," Khalifa recalls. "When I said goodbye...
...results were impressive: gnarled, noirish items like The Odd One Dies and Where a Good Man Goes. Milkyway developed a solid rep, and its house star, the sensitively sullen Lau Ching-wan, became the poor man's Chow Yun-fat. A Hero Never Dies, a blueprint for Fulltime Killer in its rivalry of two gang lieutenants, won a fistful of critics' prizes. Running Out of Time garnered Andy Lau his first Best Actor citation in the Hong Kong Film Awards. With The Mission, To was elevated to top status among Asian action auteurs. One of his first Milkyway films...
Blame this predicament on Wall Street's bond traders, a hopelessly sullen bunch bent on blocking a recovery. They are the ones keeping long-term rates high. The traders, not Greenspan, set rates by bidding bond prices up and down on the open market, moving yields in synch with their world view. That view for much of this year has been that things aren't getting any worse. See what I mean by hopeless? Last week, outplacement firm Challenger Gray & Christmas reported that layoffs announced in July hit an eight-year high. Retail sales are falling off a cliff...
...Already, the months of confinement in an adult county jail have hardened Nate. It has forced him to turn inward in a seemingly callused, sullen and uncaring way. Teachers who see him now cannot believe how much he has changed. He also has grown; the puberty that no doubt helped drive many of his actions that fateful day, from his decision to arrive at school with flowers for a sweetheart to his pointing the gun at Grunow, have made Nate larger, broader across the shoulder, his voice deeper. He no longer looks like a child...
...Stonewall abuts a shopping mall with high-tech neighbors such as Lockheed Martin. Commuters face a 90-min. drive to Washington, making attendance at concerts and teachers' conferences problematic. And high schoolers at Stonewall, like those everywhere, are prone to reply to "What happened at school today?" with a sullen "Not much...