Word: woe
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...weekend's prestige item: a family drama starring Spider-Man (Tobey Maguire), a Star Wars princess (Natalie Portman) and the surviving dude from Brokeback Mountain (Jake Gyllenhaal). Big stars when they're in big movies, the trio will have a tougher time selling this honorable tale of war and woe; Brothers finished third with $9.7 million. Three slots further down, the heist film Armored swiped $6.6 million, or less than a sixth of the amount the guys in the movie are stealing. That's pretty feeble for the week's only new action film, whose low-wattage cast - Matt Dillon...
...California has long inspired its own premature obituaries. The 1855 book The Land of Gold dismissed it as "lawless, penniless and powerless." TIME published a woe-is-California issue called "The Endangered Dream" in 1991 after the aerospace industry collapsed. But even with 12% unemployment, California still has an enviably young and productive workforce. And it's still a magnet for dice-rolling dreamers who want to start anew, make money and change the world, with or without pants. "I see my own pattern repeated again and again - people who want to invent the future and aren't afraid...
...rain doesn't put just golfers in a bad mood. Those corporate sponsors shelling out $240,000 just love schmoozing clients ticked off they can't follow Tiger. And forget about the fans. During a walk around Bethpage on Thursday, it was easy to stumble into tales of woe. One guy was stuck on a bus for three hours before getting to the course, only to be told that play was canceled. Many shelled out big bucks for opening day. "I waited a year-and-a-half for this and paid $200 for a ticket, and this is what...
What's it feel like to survive one hurricane only to be told that another is on the way? New York City-area homeowners are in just that spot. After the region suffered the brunt of financial-industry cutbacks, the next big wave of woe could be a nor'easter of collapsing home prices. That's the forecast of an extensive new report on residential real estate by Deutsche Bank, which calls for home prices in metropolitan New York City (which includes Westchester, northern New Jersey and other nearby areas) to fall 40.6% from the prices that prevailed in March...
...week during the year of their 18th birthday. Since such schemes aren't likely to do the trick for French papers, it makes sense for publishers to search for ways to eliminate costs before they occur. After all, the free handout dailies - another source of woe for traditional papers - long ago stopped publishing during year-end holidays and summer vacations, when readership volume dropped...