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...Linda Richman would once have said, Celebrity Boxing was actually neither celebrity nor boxing. Given the matchups - Danny "Danny Partridge" Bonaduce vs. Barry "Greg Brady" Williams, Todd "Different Strokes" Bridges vs. Rob "Vanilla Ice" Van Winkle and Tonya "Kneecaps" Harding vs. Paula "Kiss It" Jones - it would better have been called "Didn't You Used To Be a Celebrity? Boxing." And the pugilism was more like flailing than boxing (plus, with 16-ounce gloves strapped to the fighters' hands and cushiony sparring helmets on, nobody was likely to emerge too bloodied) but then, nobody was tuning in for a grand...
...never thought I'd say this, but the David-Letterman-vs.-"Nightline" controversy has actually made me feel sorry for Michael Eisner...
...catfish. Legislation to make the ban permanent passed the Senate in December and is pending in the House. The measure was specifically aimed at competition from Vietnamese farmers who raise a variety of catfish in flooded rice paddies and sell them for attractive prices: about $1.80 a lb. wholesale, vs. $2.80 for U.S.-farmed catfish. Called basa, the Vietnamese fish account for about 20% of catfish fillets sold in the U.S., up from 7% in 1997. "These fish are being pawned off as catfish to unsuspecting American consumers," argued Arkansas Senator Tim Hutchinson, who co-sponsored the legislation against basa...
...stock market was a safer place to hide last year, when the S&P 500 fell 12%. But private equity has outperformed publicly traded stocks for the past three years, with an average annual return of 16.9% vs. 2.4% for the S&P 500; 10 years, 18.8% vs. 11.9%; and 20 years, 16.9% vs. 12.9%, Thomson Financial reports. Last year's losses, though, have been the focus. New cash flowing into private equity fell 43% last year. "A lot of people are still running," notes Stanley Pantowich, CEO of New York City-based TAG Associates. "I think it's time...
...catfish. Legislation to make the ban permanent passed the Senate in December and is pending in the House. The measure was specifically aimed at competition from Vietnamese farmers who raise a variety of catfish in flooded rice paddies and sell them for attractive prices: about $4.00 a kilo wholesale, vs. $5.60 for U.S.-farmed catfish. Called basa, the Vietnamese fish account for about 20% of catfish fillets sold in the U.S., up from 7% in 1997. "These fish are being pawned off as catfish to unsuspecting American consumers," argued Arkansas Senator Tim Hutchinson, who co-sponsored the legislation against basa...