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Kiley, formerly senior vice president at Wall Street investment bank L.F. Rothschild, worked for the Institute's project in Slovakia until 1997, advising the government on ways to reduce pollution and improve its environmental record...
...stock you bought dropped 30% yesterday because it failed to meet Wall Street's exacting expectations. Ouch--you've just been scalded by what we call an earnings blow-up. Now what? Do you lie there inert, screaming "Where's the rest of my stock?" Nah. In the trenches of capitalism where I toil, one of these high-explosive blow-ups hits me monthly, obliterating any hope of a quick profit, or perhaps producing a staggering unrealized loss. IBM, Xerox, Unisys and Lexmark have all detonated recently. First, take heart. You aren't the only one dumb enough...
There's a sadness at the core of this CD that trails every beat like a heart murmur. At age 12, Apple says, she was raped by a stranger. Images from that attack creep across her songs, shadows angling along a wall. In Fast As You Can, she sings, "I fight him always and still." In real life, Apple says, she's happily dating filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights). But on this CD, her heart is a chunk of meat in a fridge: unloved, unlovable, freezer-burned. Violated once, she says romance races "right through" her. So she writes...
...cheer up a dark room or give yourself a "light bath" with Philips' new Original Bright Light ($300), which simulates natural daylight minus harmful ultraviolet rays. Used to treat seasonal affective disorder in Europe, the 2-ft.-high device can sit on your desk or hang from a wall. Philips says it "promotes a sense of well-being," but we just like its clear, sunny glow...
Historians should step aside for this husband-wife team, he a Wall Street Journal editor, she a novelist. Their treasury of more than 400 epistles renders a more definitive portrait of America's past 99 years than would all the centennial books laid decade to decade. Some entries are moving (Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 letter from a Birmingham, Ala., jail), some comical (fugitive Clyde Barrow's 1934 note to Henry Ford, praising his "dandy" V8 getaway car). They add up to an exceptional bedside companion...