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PETER (FORMERLY FUNNY) FARRELLY AGE: 44 OCCUPATION: Co-director of Shallow Hal BEST PUNCH: "She's dead wrong...it must have hit things for her that we couldn't have foreseen." Plus, Wilson, like the Hal lead character, once busted a chair...
...greatest leaders of the past century, Mahatma Gandhi, had foreseen all of this in the equally murderous relations between communities in India before partition. He knew the awful logic of violence. His view was that the Communists had it all quite wrong. The ends did not justify the means. On the contrary, it was the character of the means used that determined the nature of the ends achieved. Violence will result in further violence. The infernal spiral must be turned back by any means possible. And by holding on to truth, satyagraha...
That's the risk foreseen by Michael J. Mandel, Business Week's economics editor, in a new book darkly titled The Coming Internet Depression. According to Mandel, any failure by the Fed to counter such a cash shortage by slashing interest rates could send the economy into a harrowing free fall. Though government safety nets would prevent a repeat of the Great Depression of the 1930s, he writes, "things could still get very ugly...
When he began to work, about 13 years ago, on the project that would ultimately become Bellow: A Biography (Random House; 686 pages; $35), James Atlas could hardly have foreseen that his subject would father a daughter (at age 84) in late 1999 and produce a best-selling novel the following year. Atlas' book is thus considerably less conclusive than he surely intended. Among his many remarkable achievements, Bellow has outlived his own life...
This is New Year's Eve 1999, as foreseen by Y2K--a truly painful NBC film that last weekend became a late-breaking entry for the title of Worst TV Movie of the Millennium, despite some substantial competition. For what the movie lacks in budget and coherent plot, it makes up for in family-size doses of alarmism...