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...friend of Christopher Robin's gave the toys as a gift to the New York Public Library, which everyone agreed was a Perfectly Legal Thing. Everyone, that is, except Gwyneth Dunwoody, a British Member of Parliament, who said yesterday that it was high time Pooh came home. Oh bother, thought Mr. Giuliani, the Mayor of New York. "They've been very happy here," he said, and besides, he added, New York had stopped being a colony a long time ago. Ms. Dunwoody disagreed, and pronounced Mr. Giuliani a Mayor of Very Little Brain. "Fair enough," she said, "I am happy...
...them in class, because they take all their classes at the Med School or the Ed School or the botanical gardens at Dumbarton Oaks, or they're so busy being famous or getting quoted about how much their source-books cost that they don't bother to show up for class at all. After a while we come to know a lot about them, certainly more than they know about us. We talk about them, admire them, think about them at random moments. But if we should ever see them conjured up in flesh and blood, crossing paths with...
...bother breaking out the Magic Markers and the masking tape to create yet another batch of tear-off posters to sell your used books...
...stock got pounded. Ditto Kodak a few days later, except that its profits weren't so tidy. I'm expecting a batch of replays, and if it happens that way, analysts will be letting air out of their earnings estimates for months. So when stocks fall, don't bother looking for an explanation. It's earnings angst, and Wall Street is running out of tranquilizers...
...huge shot," Dean says. "Down the stretch, he always comes up big. He responds to pressures really well--it doesn't bother...