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...advertisement, McCain addressed voters about his Republican opponent, saying, "his ads twist the truth like Clinton. We're all pretty tired of that...
...tech-stock frenzy took a new twist last week with the IPO of Palm Inc. On the first day of trading, the PDA division of 3Com Corp. became more valuable ($53 billion) than its parent company ($28 billion), even though 3Com still owns 94% of Palm's stock. If you got in late, you got hurt. Palm fell 16% on Friday, to $80.25. 3Com, after falling 21% on Thursday, closed the week at $83.06. This week the arbs move in. Careful...
...GRIP For Luddites who still write with pens, A.T. Cross has developed a high-tech item to make the job more pleasant. Twist a dial on its Morph pen ($50), and the device changes from its initial cylindrical shape into a flexible triangular prism, giving you a better grip and providing soft, flat surfaces for your thumb, index and middle fingers. The rubbery material has a pleasant, almost sensual feel, and the sleek design--available in eight colors, including copper, gold and green--makes a style statement...
...classic cops-and-robbers tale, but with a film-noir twist. Ovando was railroaded by the police, who had planted a gun to get the conviction. But no one believed Ovando until a dishonest cop, Rafael Perez, talked. Faced with 14 years in prison for stealing cocaine from a police lockup, Perez opted to bargain for a lighter sentence by delivering up his fellow officers. That was five months ago, and Perez has hardly stopped talking since. He has filled 2,000 transcript pages with accounts of cops faking evidence, testifying against innocent people and generally acting like criminals themselves...
...catalogs, with Mann playing crowd-pleasers "You Could Make a Killing" and "That's Just What You Are" (from the _Cruel Intentions_ and "Melrose Place" soundtracks respectively, as well as her 1995 release _I'm With Stupid_). Penn brought out his biggest hit, 1989's "No Myth," with a twist: he let Mann share lead vocals. The duet sounded natural, as did the entire collaboration between these two phenomenal artists whose chemistry and love made Saturday an evening to remember...