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While my mathematically inclined readers scramble to figure out just how fast I was going, I should point out that during my sadly-vanished adolescence, the only car I ever drove was a sturdy 1989 Volvo station wagon. The wagon was a lumbering maroon beast, well-equipped to take out a panzer on a muddy Belgian field, but utterly incapable of breaking the 70 m.p.h. barrier without shuddering and shedding loose parts across Connecticut’s crowded highways. On this fateful day, however, I was driving my friend Sarah’s spanking new Mercedes-Benz, in which...
...wouldn't say she's got the Big Mo, but there's clearly a change in investors' willingness to view the merits of the deal," says Joel Wagon-feld, research analyst at Banc of America Securities, which had previously been skeptical of the merger. Indeed, the gap between what HP wants to pay for Compaq shares and how the market values them--a key measure of merger confidence, called the arbitrage spread--has narrowed from a toxic $4.35 in November to $1.70. In another tacit sign of support, the company's top five shareholders have been quietly adding to their...
WATCHING ELLIE NBC, Tuesdays, 8:30 p.m. E.T.; LEAP OF FAITH NBC, Thursdays, 8:30 p.m. E.T. The networks have long resented HBO, with its nyah-nyah-ing slogan, "It's not TV. It's HBO." But these network sitcoms are aiming to climb on the HBO buzz wagon. Ellie has a pay-cable veneer--an edgy narrative style (each story unfolds in real time), a cinematic look and no laugh track--but the safe heart of a network show. As a lounge singer of a certain age sleeping with her band's married guitarist, Seinfeld alumna Julia Louis-Dreyfus...
...occasionally to sweep a lucky woman into his arms; Kelly was grounded, seemingly welded to terra firma, and when he held a woman, she felt the imprint for days. Cyd Charisse, who danced with Kelly in "Singin? in the Rain" and, the next year, with Astaire in "The Band Wagon," says her husband always knew which dancer she?d been working with. "If I didn?t have a mark, it was Fred Astaire. And if I was black and blue, it was Gene Kelly." Not to say that both men didn?t work their leading ladies hard. Debbie Reynolds...
After being informed on a loudspeaker that they had 30 seconds to leave the street or risk arrest, the nine were handcuffed and taken away by a CPD prisoner transport wagon without incident. The street was clear...