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...individuals haven't caught the same fever. They aren't doing much buying or selling, says Bob Adler at mutual-fund tracker AMG Data. But the swift tech rebound creates vulnerability for all. It breeds that old feeling of technology not as a business but a lottery. If the rally lasts much longer, there is a good chance that individuals will start buying tech again just when they should be doing some off-loading...
...liars) for Mulholland Dr.; Santa Rosa (scene of Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt) for the toxic scent of small-town failure in The Man Who Wasn't There. Both films serve up a lovely, lurid brew of greed, murder and twisted identities. But the Coen movie, with Billy Bob Thornton and Frances McDormand locked in a jealous adagio, is twistily faithful to the noir formula. The Lynch, which sails through its first 90 minutes as a ripping yarn about a mystery woman (brunet Laura Harring) and the would-be starlet (blond Naomi Watts) who gets involved with her, goes...
...Bob Graham wants to stretch out the taxes citrus growers must pay for the $83 million they got in federal aid when they lost trees to citrus canker. Citrus canker has been sweeping through Florida and the only way farmers can stop it is to cut down the trees. Graham wants his farmers to have a longer time to pay taxes on the compensation they get from the federal government for their loss...
...Investigators in Florida, which is leading the inquiry on behalf of all 50 state attorneys general, believe that Ford and Firestone share blame. Says attorney general Bob Butterworth: "If they already knew they had these problems, why did they put an inferior tire on this vehicle? The problem you have here is lawyers and the marketing department overruled the safety recommendations of engineers...
...Many of you felt that Bob Kerrey's treatment at the hands of the news media was the ugliest aspect of the controversy surrounding his confession. "American journalism has hit an all-time low," wrote a Florida woman. "Reporters who hoped to 'hit it big' with this story only exhibited their ignorance of history and war." A New Jerseyan shared her disgust and was "taken aback by the arrogance and superior attitude of the press. Your need to know everything gives you no right to eviscerate Kerrey. How dare you?" A Louisiana man who served in the military believes that...