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...Very few of them," he says, "are functioning adults right now" - who lured him into street crime. As a 12-year-old in a detention home he was discovered by Cus d'Amato, who had trained and managed Floyd Patterson to the heavyweight boxing title in the '50s. Cus saw potential in this soft-spoken junior thug, and Mike went along with the program because "I was afraid of being physically humiliated in the streets again...
What almost no one saw coming in Apple's results for the quarter that ended in March was that the company would sell nearly 3.8 million iPhones. Most educated guesses were around 3.1 million. In a world where securities analysts send spies to Apple stores and bribe hardware component suppliers in Taiwan for data on iPhone parts shipments, experts are not supposed to be off that much. It makes them look bad, but it makes Apple look good, both for its ability to keep things secret and for building a handset that is expensive, making it a real aspirational product...
...saw is that the markets anticipate GDP health six months or so in advance, so what this disconnect is telling us is that economic recovery is just around the corner. Sure, we're seeing some green shoots particularly in China, where industrial production rose 8.3% year-on-year in March, retail sales surged 15.9% in the first quarter, and investment in fixed assets jumped 28.6% in March after rising 26.5% in February. But it's difficult to see how Asia can return to real growth with export demand dead in the U.S. and Europe - and no one expects a resurrection...
...believe him, Abrams barely saw Star Trek the first time around. He has genially but unapologetically stated that he is neither a Trekkie nor a Trekker - choose your suffix. "The whole point was to try to make this movie for fans of movies, not fans of Star Trek, necessarily," he has said. Star Trek - just Star Trek, straight, no chaser - is Abrams' attempt to reverse-engineer the early years of Kirk and Spock and the rest of the original-series crew. It's like a Stanislavskian exercise, retroactively endowing the characters with a set of childhood memories (rather like...
...report of a smell of sulfur in the building. Officers reported that the BPD handled the incident. 5:01 p.m.—Officers were dispatched to Soldiers Field Park to a report that a television had been thrown out of a window. Officers arrived and saw that a computer monitor, not a television, was laying smashed by the entryway. Officers spoke with the individual who had thrown the monitor out of the window and informed them of the dangerousness of the situation. Officers reported that management was notified of the incident. —Staff writer Emily J. Hogan...