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...After two days of intense arm-twisting - and amid no discernible drop-off in criticism from grumbling politicians - California is now the proud owner of a $10 billion bond-issue plan that walks like a bailout of the state's near-bankrupt utilities, and quacks like a bailout of the state's near-bankrupt utilities. And certainly the protesters' signs say it's a bailout...
...guilty or not, the guy folded like a tent in front of Queen Jerri and the assembled cool crowd, offering up his razors with a truly pathetic look on his face. And if you're an Army guy who can't fish, can't bond with others, and lets an old lady with plastic teeth outsmart you in the Tribal Council (although technically, Maralyn voted for "Cal," so maybe that doesn't count), you're better off back at the base saluting toilets with a toothbrush...
...heard it here: 75 basis points (three quarters of a point) is what the Fed needs to put a smile on the face of the bond markets and the real economic bears, and it increasingly looks as if Greenspan is one of them. The Fed chairman went out of his way to declare during his Senate testimony last week that economic growth was "close to zero," and the board's consensus may well be that we're in a recession right...
...crazy, deformed, jillionaire pedophile named Mason Verger (Gary Oldman), who years earlier peeled off his own face while under the spell of Lecter. Verger plans to capture Lecter and feed him to a herd of vicious swine. Verger will use Clarice Starling, the FBI agent who has a mysterious bond with the fugitive, as bait. Lecter is up to his usual tricks: shopping, disemboweling, forcing a victim to eat his own brains, that kind of thing. Finally, in the novel Clarice apparently becomes a cannibal herself. Don't worry: we haven't given away the ending of the film; screenwriters...
MICHAEL MILKEN 1980s junk-bond king, who has already spent time in prison, campaigned for a pardon, but enemies and victims resisted. White House officials say he never had much of a chance, but they didn't want to rule a pardon out in case someone convinced Clinton...