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Friday, Feb 22, 2002

anti-trust me

"Twenty years ago, writing about antitrust crimes in the Michigan Law Review, Easterbrook and Fischel, then both professors at the University of Chicago, wrote that managers not only may, but should, violate the rules when it is profitable to do so. And it is clear that they believedthat this rule should apply beyond just antitrust."

stealing seins

the seinfeld zeitgeist

puffed out

"Combs is a Renaissance man, but only by the standards of a P.T. Barnum world. Rarely has someone become so famous by being so mediocre at so many things�a boy wonder without any wonder. Puffy is a famous rapper who can't rap, and he's becoming a movie actor who can't act. He's a restaurateur who serves ho-hum food; a magazine publisher whose magazine was immediately forgettable (Notorious�see, you've forgotten it already); a music producer whose only talents are stealing old songs and recycling the work of his dead friend the Notorious B.I.G."

group pug

"The McLaughlin Group is about to "celebrate" its twentieth anniversary. We might as well "celebrate" the discovery of anthrax."

thrax tracks

"A biological weapons control expert yesterday refused to back down from her claim that the FBI has a prime suspect in last autumn's deadly anthrax letters episode, despite strenuous denials by the bureau."

working the reeds

"We look forward to working with Enron," he said.

der fury

you know theres trouble when the germans are mocking us for our militancy.

Thursday, Feb 21, 2002

frontline news

"Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is dead, reliable sources close to investigation tell CNN. Details to come."

firmly in the mainstream

"Ninety percent of young male workers now doing worse than they would have 20 years ago"

iceman

"I thought that if you exchange very light particles such as electrons with protons, it must have some significant consequences," he said. "It seemed that if we could somehow change the electrical properties of ice, we should be able to change its mechanical properties � and vice versa."

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