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Ireland's latest cinematic export, "Waking Ned Devine," tells the story of how aging Irish villagers react to a winning lottery ticket. The catch? The golden ticket belongs to the recently deceased Ned Devine. Think Weekend at Bernie's with geriatric Gaelics. Kendall Square Cinema, 1 Kendall Square. 494-9800. Call for showtime...
NAME: WARREN ("I'M NOT NED") BEATTY OCCUPATION: Actor, former womanizer BEST PUNCH: Calls Bart "nasty" and says his reporting can be "wildly inaccurate...but because he's the editor of Variety, no one ever calls him to task for his sloppy research...
...Waking Ned Divine...
...peaceful death in the time and manner he requested," says Faye Girsh, executive director of the Hemlock Society USA, a group that promotes physician help in dying. "I think we should see more people dying this way." Opponents saw it differently. "I certainly didn't see any compassion," says Ned McGrath, spokesman for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit. "His last moment on earth, and he's left in a room with Jack Kevorkian and a video camera. What a horrible way to leave the world." Critics say that since Kevorkian made the video himself, it is impossible to know...
There are many other people--mutual-fund pioneer Ned Johnson at Fidelity Investments and discount broker Charles Schwab, to name two--who over the course of the next 40 years helped push Wall Street and Main Street closer together. Yet for all their innovations, they remain at bottom Merrill's heirs. Their modern investing mantra is the same basic message he preached so many years ago-- that people should invest for the long haul; that they should have a clear understanding of the companies they are buying; that despite the hair-raising ups and downs, stocks have historically outperformed every...