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Volume 5 Issue 7
Volume 5 Issue 7
Canadian Press
cal, “Rent,” this holiday season
has movies for all types.
November 18
Harry Potter and the Goblet of
Welcome Games to Beijing Three high-tech consoles –
Fire Microsoft’s Xbox 360, Sony’s
Reuters
TSS/Joseph Krutov
Be a Green Christmas
workers on Wall Street are in a brought about a more cautious
good mood. Investment bankers, attitude towards growth. People
traders, and other employees are became more selective about
getting their presents early, as guarantees and were warned of
financial firms award their annual year. This technology brings in activity and energy trading. Oil top competitors.
bonuses. greater business agility in Wall and gas mergers have brought With global deal-making
This year, bonuses may rise Street financial firms. It will re- billions into the coffers of the rising, some on Wall Street are
15-20% above 2003 levels. A sult in higher efficiency and largest companies. optimistic. The week of Novem-
typical global merger chief may greater revenues,” said Jun Not everyone will benefit ber 7 was a big one for corporate
be seeing a 20-25% increase from Zhang, Senior Architecture Di- from this trend. Gains became mergers and acquisitions activity,
last year’s bonus to a total of $8-9 rector of Standard and Poor's. losses for high-yield convertible with global deal-making topping
million. Wall Street profits will rise bond traders and equity traders as $100 billion.
“Service-oriented architec- about 13% to a total of $14.4 bil- they saw a 10% drop in their bo- Often times, bonuses are
ture is getting more popular this lion. Banks profited from merger nuses. more than just cherries that come
“Third quarter is typically with ice cream cones. On Wall
the weakest quarter of the year, Street, they are an important part
The New York Stock Exchange, the source of revenue for but this year it was an anomaly of a worker’s salary package. Not
New York City, is predicted to do well this holiday season. and was perhaps the strongest,” only are they are a measure of the
said Andrew financial service
Roost, a Johnson industr y’ s
Associates vice healthiness, but
president. “It
“Third quarter is
bonuses can also
helped solidify typically the weak- have a helpful
the year.” est quarter of the effect on New
Some worry
about changes in year, but this year it York’s economy.
Wall Street
the market’s di- was an anomaly bonuses are also a
rection. Rising source of revenue
interest rates, the
and was perhaps
for New York
resurgence of oil the strongest.” City. When Wall
prices, and major -Andrew Roost Street does well,
Augusta Chronicle
Ikea World
at the opening. Roger Penguino, their kids off. Ikea also has a res- Although Mr. Kamprad has
an Ikea customer, heard about taurant for shoppers to rest in retired, Ikea lives on. Currently,
this challenge and decided that he after a hard day of shopping. Ikea has over 200 stores world-
had to win it. A week before the Ingvar Kamprad says that he wide, employs over 75,000 peo-
BY STEPHANIE TAM store’s opening, he parked his car owes Ikea’s success to the notion ple, and posts a revenue of $12
STAFF WRITER at the shopping center and waited. of foldable furniture. He knew billion a year. Still, Ikea is par-
Over 2,000 people joined him on what the economy wanted and ticularly concerned about sales in
Even the most obsessed sho- June 29, the store’s opening day. needed- frugality. That is exactly the U.S., since that is key to ex-
paholic usually goes home to It is no wonder why the why, according to MSNBC, no pansion—and since Ikea came
sleep. But Jordan Leopold, a Swedish company’s owner, Ing- design — no matter how inspired close to blowing this chance in
manager at Costco Wholesale, var Kamprad, may surpass Bill — finds its way into the show- the early 1990’s with their unrea-
had the unusual experience of Gates in wealth, though he has room if it cannot be made afford- sonable prices. But Ikea shouldn’t
spending three nights in an Ikea never disclosed the size of his able. Josephine Rydberg-Dumont, worry too much about it. From its
bedding department. He earned fortune. According to some, Ikea president of Ikea in Sweden says, beautiful, yet affordable furniture
some $2000 for his trou- “Designing beautiful-but- line, to the famous Swedish meat-
ble. expensive products is easy. De- balls in the Ikea restaurant, there
Leopold won his signing beautiful products that is no doubt the company will sur-
three nights at Ikea in a are inexpensive and functional is vive just like it has been doing for
contest held before the a huge challenge.” the past 62 years. ◙
opening of an Atlanta,
Georgia, store. He, along
with four other winners,
had to stay in the store as
Five Friendly Mascots
workmen complete the
final construction work Welcome Games to Beijing
Cool-man
Point-Counterpoint
Freedom or Selfishness The Bigger Picture
BY YANJIE HOU 150,000 and 300,000 lower respi- BY HANFORD CHIU spaces, such as the New York
OPINIONS EDITOR ratory tract infections in infants STAFF WRITER City ban on smoking in restau-
and children under 18 months of rants, are justified. However,
When I was little, I used to To the smokers of America,
age and 1,900 to 2,700 sudden smoking in open public spaces is
throw my father’s cigarettes the smell of freedom is a sweet
infant death syndrome (SIDS) little more than a nuisance. Oppo-
down the toilet. Whenever my one, but for those that abstain
deaths in the United States. nents of public smoking claim
uncle came over, I made him go from cigarettes the smell seems
Smokers talk about their that even slight exposure to sec-
outside to smoke even when it noxious and lethal. On any given
ondhand smoke may cause can-
was snowing and below zero. I
cer. But if we curtail freedoms
Agence France-Presse
was probably a spoiled, demand-
based not just on definite harm
ing, and selfish brat. But even
but on potential or theoretical
now, I still feel annoyed when-
harm, where will rights restric-
ever the sickening, choking smell
tions end? If smoking is banned
of cigarettes suddenly assaults my
because of the dangers of second-
senses.
hand smoke, what is to stop
Freedom is a fundamental
Christian conservatives from say-
American value. We trust that our
ing that people cannot have abor-
government will respect our free-
tions because it harms the moral-
dom to speak, to publish, to pro-
ity of the country, or the FCC
test, to choose the way we want
from censoring the media because
to live our lives. In America,
it poisons the minds of the coun-
nothing is sacred. People mock
try. To protect the rights of all
everything and everyone. The
individuals, some sacrifices must
only thing sacred to us is freedom
be made by everybody. Everyone
itself. So of course whenever the
is taxed to fund social programs
government restricts smoking
to help the disadvantaged. Sol-
there are inevitably gasps of out- Smoking can be seen as a personal freedom or a selfish act. diers train to protect the country
rage from civil libertarians.
from potential oppressors. Can’t
It is important to realize even
rights to smoke and to live their we tolerate a little smoke to se-
though the government can pro- street in Manhattan, somebody is
lives as they choose. But what cure our freedom?
hibit people from smoking in cer- probably carrying a lit cigarette
about the rights of those 3,000 Philosophy aside, smoking
tain areas, it cannot prevent peo- and polluting the air. It can be
non-smokers who died from lung provides benefits to society as
ple from smoking altogether. quite irritating to breathe in un-
cancer? Did they have the right to well. The tobacco industry pays
Banning smoking in public places pleasant chemicals, but what are a
be protected from the lethal ad- about $31 billion in tax revenue
does not oppress those who few coughs compared to the big
dictions and selfish choices of to the country annually, and ciga-
smoke but protect those who do picture?
others? What about the rights of rette taxes grow steeper every
not. Americans pride themselves
those 2,700 infants who died year. For people to smoke, they
Secondhand smoke has been on their devotion to personal
from SIDS? Did they not deserve must pay for that right, and in
classified by the Environmental rights. The freedom to smoke in
the right to live? turn benefit non-smokers by help-
Protection Agency as a Group A public is one of these rights.
I might have been selfish ing to fund health care. To ban
carcinogen. Each year, second- Granted, there are definitely side
when I forced my uncle to smoke smoking in public would reduce
hand smoke causes approximately effects of smoking that can harm
outside on a freezing, winter the tax revenue that is immensely
3,000 lung cancer deaths and others, but the Constitution pro-
night. But I certainly am no more helpful to our debt-ridden coun-
35,000 heart disease deaths in tects individual rights unless they
selfish than the smoker who re- try. Therefore, the next time a
adult non-smokers in the United interfere with the rights of an-
fuses to walk twenty feet from a smoker walks past, take a deep
States. Each year, secondhand other. Smoking does not infringe
public park to protect playing breath and smile at the defender
smoke is responsible for between on the rights of others enough to
children. ◙ of civil liberties and donor to our
merit prohibition. nation’s coffers. ◙
A Page Out of a
Bans on smoking in enclosed
L I E A N N A I O W A
BY KIMBERLY YEE
STAFF WRITER I D A D E A N T A L K
"Why do you love me?"
You asked me last night, P E R S I A H O E D
While holding me tight...
Y E L L O W S C I
And this was my answer,
for all of the seasons and years to come, H O R N S L O N I O N
"I love you because you're the only one,
Perfect in all description, A L O E D A D E D E N
Nothing can compare,
To your sweet embraces, H E M R A M S L E D S
And your lovely, passionate kisses...
A G A I M A G E S
You’re always there for me,
Whenever I need you, N A G S A R A B I A
For comfort or support,
A shoulder to lean on, A N T S E T T E E R R
A warm, soothing hug,
Or a kiss to kiss away all the problems of the day… B A I T L O O N T K O
Crypto Corner
Your gleaming brown eyes,
Staring into mine,
You make me blush,
From your sweet touch…
BY ANDY YEE BY JEFERREY LIAW
STAFF WRITER STAFF WRITER
I’ll love you forever,
For all of eternity, What is a Cryptogram? If each letter is substituted for a
I’ll be yours and you’ll be mine, Cryptograms are writing that number in this addition, what is
Like two pieces that make up a perfect heart, has been coded by substituting the value of each letter?
I hope you love me the same way that each letter with a different letter.
I love you!” For instance, if T=A, H=B, and CELLAR + CORPSE + COLLAR
E=C, then the word "the" would + CLOSE + CASE + COPS
appear as "abc" throughout the = RECTOR
puzzle.
Your answer:
Solution to ‘Classic Novels’ Jumble FPL RYCF LPPK CIS I
LPPKCFYCG CFYCG UH I A=________
LPPKCFYCG CIS’J CFYCG C=________
1. Jane Eyre 6. Beowulf LPPK E=________
2. Frankenstein 7. The Great Gatsby L=________
Your answer: O=________
3. Pride and Prejudice 8. Moby Dick
R=________
4. Tom Sawyer S=________
5. Don Quijote Alexandre Dumas’s novel: The T=________
Count of Monte Cristo
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best-selling book by Arthur the help of CG technology, which
Holiday Movie Guide Golden. The story follows Sayuri,
a poor country girl played by Ziyi
was used to create the wondrous
creatures of Narnia including the
Continued from Page 1 Theron stars as the perfect assas- Zhang of “Crouching Tiger Hid- lion, Aslan, voiced by Liam
and Rosario Dawson, the film is sin, Aeon Flux. This live-action den Dragon” fame, who becomes Neeson.
directed by Chris Columbus, who adaptation of MTV’s animated the world’s most famous geisha.
also directed the first two Harry series depicts a futuristic world Producers reportedly spend over December 25
Potter movies. Dawson, who devastated by an apocalyptic viral $70 million to keep the movie, as Rumor Has It
plays the female lead, is one of pandemic. The last survivors are director Rob Marshall put it, “Rumor Has It” is a blend of
only two cast members who did- assembled in the walled-up city “very faithful” to the book. comedy and drama, sprinkled
n’t appear in the stage version. of Bregna. Theron’s character with an all-star cast including
Though set in 1989, the film is begins to question her life and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner,
made especially not “to look like career after she is asked to assas- Lion, the Witch and the Ward- and Shirley MacLaine. Aniston
a ’80s movie,” said Dawson. sinate her possible soul mate, robe stars as an unsure, engaged
Trevor Goodchild. “The Lion, the Witch, and the woman who gets cold feet as her
December 2 Wardrobe” is the first chapter of wedding nears. Aniston soon
Aeon Flux December 9 C.S. Lewis’s chronicles of a fam- learns that her family’s story
Another year, another Oscar Memoirs of a Geisha ily’s adventures in the magical might have inspired the 1967
Best Actress winner in a cat suit. An inside look at what it land of Narnia. Director Andrew movie “The Graduate,” and she
In this sci-fi action flick directed means to be a real geisha, the Adamson was recruited to bring begins a journey of self-
by Karyn Kusama, Charlize movie is an adaptation of the the mysterious world to life with discovery. ◙
“Memoirs of a Geisha”, starring Ziyi Zhang, “Rumor Has It,” starring Jennifer
is based on the best-selling book by Arthur Aniston, is about a woman on her
Golden. path to self-discovery.
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