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...knows how. Buffett's empire rests on the beer-soaked foundation of shows like this one in Cincinnati. He presides over the ritual, a short, balding, joyful character charging around the stage, cracking wise and showing off an uncanny ability to sing, play guitar, smile and kick beachballs all at the same time. Scores of those balls and inflatable sharks are bouncing above the crowd; doctors and lawyers are dancing with their children; sales clerks and college kids are swaying with their honeys; and everyone's singing along with the tight, glistening music. It's a giddy, collective delusion--landlocked...
...view the whole Powerball experience as a good use of their entertainment dollars, and as long as a person doesn't get fixated on how he or she will one day become more like Ivana Trump, what's the harm? For the Lucky 13, the decision to play was wise. The dozen and one machinists from Automation Tooling Systems in Westerville, Ohio, have been pooling money for lottery tickets for six years and hit the jackpot last week with the winning numbers 8, 39, 43, 45, 49 and the Powerball 13. With each member having chipped in $10, one Lucky...
...Jerome Robbins will be wisps of memory. But West Side Story (1961) will live forever. The moviemakers had taken Robbins's "Fancy Free" and etched it as On The Town in 1949; "West Side Story" he decided to do himself. Or nearly so; Robbins was teamed with Robert Wise as codirectors. They hated each other (when the duo received the Best Director Oscar jointly that year, neither acknowledged the other in his speech), but the child was beautiful. Russ Tamblyn's a dervish, Natalie Wood's a dream, and that finger-snapping? Gang war -- or Shakespeare, for that matter -- doesn...
...bonds of "a gazillion pengos," as he is accused of doing? Throw in his misunderstood indoor Grucci impersonation along with allegations of swearing routinely at court staff and making improper physical contact with a female judge, and you've got the makings of a high-tech lynching, as another wise man once said. Jones's suit says he was discriminated against by Nebraska's sole black state senator -- who started the investigation to remove him -- because of Jones's condition, and because he is white and Christian...
...vote getting, not policymaking. A legislative committee is now in charge of shaping plans to reform Japan's banking system, for instance. But Japanese politicians do not have big budgets for experienced staff. Even if they could plead for help from the bureaucrats, that might not be wise. Consider the diplomat who was reassigned to Tokyo this year to direct one ministry's derivatives operations: he confessed to an economist friend in Washington before he left that he didn't have a clue how derivatives worked. As former Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa concluded last winter, "I fear...