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...nobody's shocked. And when fans search the past, they look to venerate artists who were once pariahs. The movies of Bettie Page, the actress-model who died Thursday, Dec. 11, at 85 in Los Angeles after a heart attack, couldn't be more infra dig: they were sold under the counter, mailed in plain brown wrappers. Yet decades later she was elevated to the status of pulp goddess. The beatification process began in 1980, when artist Dave Stevens created a Bettie character in his graphic novel The Rocketeer. Jennifer Connelly gave her full-figured life in the 1991 movie...
...knows who else. Sony could surely use the money; its PlayStation 3 division has lost nearly $3.8 billion over the past few years. The PlayStation 3 costs $400 and is getting thumped by Microsoft's Xbox, which is twice as popular, and Nintendo's adorable Wii, which has sold four times as many units for the month of October. So a lot is at stake here...
Jones Day lawyers estimate that the rule change could cost the Federal Government up to $140 billion in revenue during the next few years. But it would only get that high if every bank in the U.S. were sold and troubled mortgage assets were all written down to zero. Still, a number of banks have made acquisitions since the rule change and are already benefiting. Wells Fargo will book an estimated $25 billion tax credit from its November acquisition of Wachovia. PNC, which bought National City in October, could get as much as $5 billion in tax benefits from that...
...week earlier, five Afghan police officers trained by Armour were murdered in their beds while defending a nearby checkpoint - possibly by other police officers. Their weapons and ammunition were stolen. "We're not sure of the motivation," Armour said. "They may have gone to join the Taliban or sold the guns in the market." (See pictures of Afghanistan's police force in training...
...area in northwest England, is famous for its offal dishes, including liver, kidney, tripe (the lining of a cow's stomach), cow's heel, sheep's trotters and elder (cow's udder). There were more than 260 tripe shops in regional capital Manchester a century ago, many of which sold faggots, a traditional English dish made from a mixture of pork liver, fatty pork and herbs wrapped in an intestinal membrane. Scotland, of course, is famous for haggis, which is made of the heart, liver and lungs of a sheep or calf, all boiled with oats and seasoning...