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...Washington, Roel Campos, even likened it to "a casino." But in the first eight months of this year, only 85 companies listed on AIM, compared with 201 in the same period a year ago - and almost twice as many have dropped off it. "Capacity is massively down," says Tom Nicholls, a partner at London law firm LG who specializes in matters related to AIM. The nomads themselves are now under financial pressure - their number has dropped from 80 to 69 - and the remaining ones are pessimistic; at a June conference, they were asked how long they thought it would take...
RockNRolla Written and directed by Guy Ritchie; rated R; out now As Anglo meanies battling Russian toughs over a real estate deal, Gerard Butler is the star, Tom Wilkinson has the star turn, and Mark Strong steals the show. Fans of early Ritchie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; Snatch) won't find a lot new in Mr. Madonna's latest dredging of the London underworld, but it has the same high quotient of rude...
...Valley of Elah or Rendition; viewers figured the films were a cross between a harangue and homework. Not many more people came when producers tried crossbreeding hot-spot intrigue with familiar genres. The Kingdom, a Jamie Foxx action picture set in Saudi Arabia, and Charlie Wilson's War, with Tom Hanks in an upbeat comedy about Afghanistan, earned the stars some of their lowest box-office numbers in years. Americans, urged by their President to defeat the terrorists by going shopping, apparently didn't put tickets to war-on-terrorism movies on their must-buy list...
Loudness is not everything. Tom Morello ’86, having been a member of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave—two bands that rocked out mightily—has decided to turn it down with his solo project, The Nightwatchman...
...this financial deficit, the tough primary fight was to her advantage. She was the dark horse against two other Democrats - an Iraq war veteran who had the backing of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and a millionaire who'd previously run against the district's retiring Congressman, Republican Tom Reynolds. After Kryzan's opponents fired off a series of nasty television attacks ads, she produced a brilliantly effective one showing two men engaged in a brawl near a park bench. In the ad, Kryzan appears in the foreground and says, "Boys, take it somewhere else." The high-road message...