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You know the stock market isn't feeling especially jaunty when the best news it gets all week is that economic growth might be slowing.
The NYT pass at the story, running inside, includes this not-quite-Miranda warning from Arafat's chief of police, "If anyone from the Qassam Brigades [of Hamas] gets near a police officer, shoot him in the legs!"
Once she gets out of prison, she can theoretically murder him with impunity, because the Constitution protects her from being tried twice for the same crime.
He played Tom Powers, a street punk who gets rich running booze during Prohibition, grows too big for his britches, and winds up being shot.
Even Jackie (Tommy Bone), Dunph's wheelchair-bound brother ("He had a freak accident at touch football and fell off a roof," explains Dunph, in a voice-over), gets to be in on the jokes instead of the object of them: In one scene, he feigns extreme cerebral palsy so that he and his brother can have great seats at a football game.