BRUSSELS, Jan. 16— The 434-member European Parliament is scheduled to elect a President to succeed Simone Veil, a former French Health Minister, in voting that begins Tuesday and that could run to four rounds.

Some members are worried that the Parliament has had little impact on the citizens of the Common Market countries. It was elected by direct election for the first time in 1979.

Former Chancellor Willy Brandt of West Germany, a Socialist Member of the Parliament, said in a recent speech there: ''We have a duty to our 100 million electors to achieve greate r power before the 1984 elections. We cannot close down like a grocer 's shop.''

There is also concern that reports of empty chambers, extravagance and waste have dented the Parliament's image. In addition, the division of its work among offices in Luxembourg, Strasbourg and Brussels costs an extra $40 million a year. One expense is transporting 700 trunks of documents by truck each month. Members say the new President will have to end this situation. The Issue of Influence

The President will also have to deal with the persistent talk of extravagance, centering on the cost of the Parliament's many buildings, champagne receptions for traveling delegations and members' expense accounts.

As to the Parliament's influence, members are looking to the new President to strengthen its role in relation to the Common Market's CDuncil of Ministers.

Now, Parliament's job is to propose amendments to directives by the Market's Commission before they are submitted to the Council of Ministers. It also reviews all aspects of Common Market policy.

Although its role is mainly advisory, it can dismiss the 14-member Commission, something it has never done. It can also reject the entire Common Market budget by an absolute majority vote, as it did once, in 1980.

It has the final say, within limits, on spending in such areas as energy and regional development, accounting for about 25 percent of the budget. When these limits are exceeded, as happened in the last two years, conflict with the market's other institutions can ensue.

Emilio Colombo, a former President of Parliament and Italy's current Christian Democratic Foreign Minister, and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher of West Germany have urged a stronger role for the Parliament under the terms of a proposed treaty of European union.

Ministers seem to want to involve the Parliament more, but will not soon meet Mrs. Veil's demands for power to veto ministerial decisions and propose Common Market legislation. Four Candidates in Election

Four members of the Parliament have declared their candidacy in what promises to be a close election. The challengers are Pieter Dankert, a Socialist from the Netherlands; Sir James Scott-Hopkins, a British Conservative; Marco Pannella, an Italian Radical, and Egon Klepsch, a West German Christian Democrat.

Mr. Klepsch, 51 years old, is thought to be ahead, but a dispute with British Conservatives could block his election. The 64-member Conservative block is primarily British, and the Britons believe Mr. Klepsch has broken a pact under which one of them would stand for the right wing this time. Their votes will go to Sir Jones, who is expected to gain few others. Mr. Pannella is thought to have only a handful of supporters.

That leaves Mr. Dankert, a 47-year-old authority on the Common Market budget, as Mr. Klepsch's main competitor.


UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Jan. 20— Following is the text of a resolution on the Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights that was vetoed by the United States today in the Security Council:

THE SECURITY COUNCIL, RECALLING its Resolution 497 (1981) dated 17 December 1981, HAVING CONSIDERED the reports of the Secretary General contained in document S/14805 dated 21 December 1981, S/14805/Corr. 1 dated 23 December 1981 and S/14821 dated 31 December 1981,

CONSIDERING that the Security Council in its Resolution 497 (1981) decided that in the event of noncompliance by Israel it would urgently meet ''to consider taking appropriate measures in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations,''

BEARING IN MIND General Assembly Resolution 36/226 B of 17 December 1981, RECALLING General Assembly Resolution 3314 (XXIX) of 14 December 1974, which defines an act of aggression as ''the invasion or attack by the armed forces of a state of the territory of another state, or any military occupation, however temporary, resulting from such invasion or attack, or any annexation by the use of force of the territory of another state or part thereof,''

DETERMINING that the continued occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights since June 1967 and its annexation by Israel on 14 December 1981 constitute a continuing threat to international peace and security,

ACTING in accordance with the relevant provisions of Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, 1. STRONGLY CONDEMNS Israel for its failure to comply with Security Council Resolution 497 (1981) and General Assembly Resolution 36/226 B (1981);

DETERMINES that Israeli measures in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, culminating in Israel's decision of 14 December 1981 to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, constitute an act of aggression under the provisions of Article 39 of the Charter of the United Nations;

3. DECIDES that all member states should consider applying concrete and effective measures in order to nullify the Israeli annexation of the Syrian Golan Heights and to refrain from providing any assistance or aid to and cooperation with Israel, in all fields, in order to deter Israel in its policies and practices of annexation;

4. DECIDES ALSO to call upon all member states of the United Nations to carry out this decision of the Security Council in accordance with Article 25 of the Charter of the United Nations;

5. URGES, having regard to the principles stated in Article 2, paragraph 6, of its Charter, states not members of the United Nations to act in accordance with provisions of this resolution;

6. CALLS UPON all other United Nations bodies and other specialized agencies of the United Nations and their members to conform their relations with Israel to the terms of this resolution;

7. DECIDES to establish in accordance with Article 29 of the Charter a committee of the Security Council to examine and report to the Council on the progress of the implementation of this resolution; 8. REQUESTS the Secretary General to submit a report to the Security Coun cil on the implementation of this resolution.

Summary: Following is the text of a resolution on the Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights that was vetoed by the United States today in the Security Council:   THE SECURITY COUNCIL, RECALLING its Resolution 497 (1981) dated 17 December 1981, HAVING CONSIDERED the reports of the Secretary General contained in document S/14805 dated 21 December 1981, S/14805/Corr. 1 dated 23 December 1981 and S/14821 dated 31 December 1981,   CONSIDERING that the Security Council in its Resolution 497 (1981) decided that in the event of noncompliance by Israel it would urgently meet ''to consider taking appropriate measures in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations,''   BEARING IN MIND General Assembly Resolution 36/226 B of 17 December 1981, RECALLING General Assembly Resolution 3314 (XXIX) of 14 December 1974, which defines an act of aggression as ''the invasion or attack by the armed forces of a state of the territory of another state, or any military occupation, however temporary, resulting from such invasion or attack, or any annexation by the use of force of the territory of another state or part thereof,''   DETERMINING that the continued occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights since June 1967 and its annexation by Israel on 14 December 1981 constitute a continuing threat to international peace and security,   ACTING in accordance with the relevant provisions of Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, 1. STRONGLY CONDEMNS Israel for its failure to comply with Security Council Resolution 497 (1981) and General Assembly Resolution 36/226 B (1981);   2.


WASHINGTON EXACTLY one year after Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. launched the Reagan Administration's contacts with the Soviet Union by sending a note to Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko warning the Russians to stay out of Poland, American policy toward Moscow seems to have returned to where it started. As Mr. Haig flies to Geneva to meet with Mr. Gromyko on Tuesday, Poland's own crackdown has punctured recent expectations that, after two years of chill in Soviet-American relations, some warming trends were on the h orizon. ''We have got a decent dialogue going, which offers some b asis for optimism that perhaps, in the months ahead, we'll make pr ogress, but we have to be prepared for the opposite,'' Mr. Haig had confided on Nov. 20, emphasizing the positive. The Secretary had had two days of talks with Mr. Gromyko at the United Nations in Se ptember that he found free of polemics. And President Reagan, at Mr . Haig's urging, had delivered a major speech on arms control that was free of such anti-Soviet invective as his remark, inhis first new s conference, that Moscow was prepared ''to commit any crime'' to sp read communism.

Mr. Haig, who had started out in office by blaming Moscow for many of Central America's troubles and much of the world's terrorism, initiated the less-polemical tone in a speech in New Orleans in August. Even as late as Dec. 11, two days before martial law was imposed in Poland, Mr. Haig was talking about using Tuesday's meeting with Mr. Gromyko to announce a date for resuming talks on strategic nuclear arms.

Last week, however, the Geneva meeting was being described by Mr. Haig's aides as the diplomatic equivalent of the O.K. Corral. Mr. Haig is planning, they said, to read a long list of grievances, ranging from Poland to Soviet supply of advanced MIG-23 fighters to Cuba. He has no plans to agree to new arms control talks because he does not want to dilute the Administration's statements of outrage over Poland.

The Soviet view apparently remains what Mr. Gromyko told Mr. Haig last Jan. 28: that developments in Poland are the internal affair of that country and ''cannot be a subject of discussion between third countries, including the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A.''

That means that instead of being a milestone toward improved relations, Geneva is likely to be just another footnote to a chronicle of mistrust that, except for the recent tentative thaw, has persisted since Russian troops invaded Afghanistan in December, 1979. President Carter reacted by, in effect, declaring the demise of detente, embargoing grain sales and shelving the second treaty on limiting strategic arms. Afghanistan, Mr. Carter said, had caused a ''dramatic change'' in his opinion of the Russians. Greater Ideological Hostility

The Reagan Administration, in contrast, came into office with its mind already made up. President Reagan said what he believed: Basically, the Russians couldn't be trusted. Despite this sharper, more ideological hostility, however, the Administration soon began to display the same kind of ambiguity as its predecessors. The realities of power intruded, particularly the need to mend strains in the Atlantic alliance and to blunt the Soviet ''peace offensive'' in Europe.

Thus, the Administration has not suspended negotiations on reducing medium-range missiles in Europe. Nor has it insisted that the allies impose economic sanctions against Moscow. In recognition of the European desire to somehow keep detente alive, Mr. Haig did not cancel the meeting with Mr. Gromyko. On Jan. 6, after West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt had been to Washington, Mr. Haig went so far as to indicate interest in an early meeting between Leonid I. Brezhnev and President Reagan, an idea endorsed by Mr. Schmidt.

This inclination toward summitry while Poland's Solidarity union was being crushed infuriated many conservatives who had been among Mr. Reagan's strongest supporters. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick reportedly considered resigning as chief delegate to the United Nations. At a neoconservative gathering in Washington, Eugene V. Rostow, Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, appealed for patience on Poland, saying the policy was ''in a state of evolution.'' He added that the Administration also lacked a consens us on how its ''new military power should be used.'' But, in an a pparent swipe at Henry A. Kissinger, who last week criticized Reagan foreign policy in two articles in The New York Times, Mr. Rostow ch ided those who sought less to analyze events than ''to position the mselves within the spectrum of intellectual fashion.''

Mr. Kissinger, long the bete noire of the Republican right for his advocacy of detente, wrote that the Administration should have canceled all high-level contacts with the Russians as soon as martial law was imposed in Poland. Mr. Haig, who was Mr. Kissinger's deputy on the National Security Council, reportedly was outraged by the articles. Not only did they violate the gentleman's rule that former secretaries do not publicly criticize a government's policy in the midst of a crisis, but Mr. Haig's aides claim that if Mr. Kissinger was still in charge, he probably would not be doing much different.

One former Kissinger aide recalled that in January 1976, the Secretary went to Moscow to talk about a pending strategic arms treaty at the very time that Soviet and Cuban forces were intervening in Angola's civil war. He was asked then, the aide recalled, why he was continuing SALT talks. He replied that arms control negotiations w ere not a fa vor to the Russians and should not be a hostage to everyturn in East- West relations.


Alexis Bledel (as Rory) and Lauren Graham (as Lorelai) on Gilmore Girls

06/06/2015 AT 11:50 PM EDT

Sorry, America: Stars Hollow isn't coming to the silver screen.

Creator Amy Sherman-Palladino shot down rumors of a

revival during the beloved show's reunion panel sponsored by

in Austin, Texas, on Saturday night.

But don't mutter "Oy, with the poodles already!" just yet – Sherman-Palladino says she's open to a chance at ending the series right. (She left the show before its seventh season after a contract dispute, and the cast and crew didn't realize that would be their final year.)

"Honestly, if anything ever happened, and I'm sorry, there's nothing in the works at the moment," she said as the audience sighed. "Here's the good thing: Nobody here hates each other. That's very important! It would have to be the right everything, like the right format, the right timing, the right way. ... It would have to be honored in a certain way. And I think if it ever came around, we would all jump in and do it.

"If it ever happened, I promise you, we'll do it correctly."

"Maybe a hip hop version?" a panelist called out. (Danny Strong, who played Paris Geller's paramour Doyle, co-created

The buzz began when Scott Patterson – known to

fans as the grouchy, lovable, flannel-wearing diner owner Luke Danes –

"talks" about filming a movie on the podcast

The quotes went viral, though Patterson clarified his comments Saturday.

"There's probably a hitman from Warner Brothers up there or something," he joked, motioning to the theater's balcony.

"It's nothing I haven't said, and it's the most asked question I get from fans or any time I'm doing any type of interview, and it's my stock answer. It springs more from hopefulness," he continued. "It's like a love letter back to the fans, because you guys made this show and now it's sort of growing exponentially with Netflix and all this, so I think it's kind of time, don't you?"

Based on the crowd's screams, it's safe to say the answer is yes.

Summary: "Hereâs the good thing: Nobody here hates each other," creator Amy Sherman-Palladino said


American muscle cars of the 1960s and '70s have staged a rapid comeback after their crash in 2009. The question now is whether the rally can continue, or if muscle prices are getting overheated.

The question could get answered in the next two weeks as the massive collectible-car auctions in Pebble Beach and Monterey, California, part of the Concours D'Elegance, get underway in mid-August. On the auction block will be hundreds of top muscle cars, some expected to sell for seven figures.

Dave Magers, the CEO of Mecum Auctions, the largest muscle-car auctioneer at Pebble/Monterey and one of the top car-auction companies in the U.S., said the market remains strong and shows no sign of slowing.

"The segment's been really hot for the past four or five years," Magers told CNBC. "I don't see it as a bubble. Bubbles are typically caused by speculation that's fueled by leverage. When the leverage turns against you, there's a liquidation event. And that drives prices down. We don't see that happening."

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He said that along with a selection of Ferraris and Lamborghinis that Mecum will sell at Monterey for seven figures, the company will also be auctioning off a 1970 Hemi 'Cuda convertible that could sell for over $3 million. Mecum sold a 1971 Hemi 'Cuda convertible last year for $3.5 million, setting a record.

The hottest cars among buyers right now are the Plymouth and Dodge products of the late 1960s and early 1970s, such as the Chargers and Challengers along with the Daytonas and Superbirds, Magers said. The 1969 and 1970 Mustangs are also in high demand, he said.

Summary: American muscle cars of the 1960s and '70s have staged a comeback from 2009. The question is whether the rally can continue.


Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are donating $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation to help fight Ebola.

Zuckerberg made the announcement in a Facebook post, saying "we need to get Ebola under control in the near term so that it doesn't spread further and become a long term global health crisis that we end up fighting for decades at large scale, like HIV or polio."

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He said the $25 million grant will help empower the CDC and experts in the field, and help front-line responders to set up care centers, train staff and spot new cases.

"We are hopeful this will help save lives and get this outbreak under control," he wrote.

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Summary: Mark Zuckerberg donated $25 million to Center for Disease Control.


Trader disclosure: On March 25, 2014, the following stocks and commodities mentioned or intended to be mentioned on CNBC's "Fast Money" were owned by the "Fast Money" traders: Karen Finerman is long BABA, BAC, C, FINL, FL, GOOG, GOOGL, JPM, M, KORS, she is short DIA, her firm is long AAPL, BAC, C, CMLS, DIS, FINL, FBT, FL, GOOG, GOOGL, IBB, JPM, M, OIH, KORS, XBI, SUNE, URI, her firm is long calls URI, her firm is short IWM, SPY, USO, Karen Finerman is on the board of GrafTech International. Tim Seymour is long T, BAC, C, DIS, XOM, F, GE, GM, GOOGL, INTC, SUNE, Tim's firm is long BABA, BIDU, MCD, NKE, NOK, PF, SBUX. Brian Kelly is long Bitcoin, US Dollar, GLD, EEM, CTRL calls, GSG, BBRY, TLT, he is short Yuan. Guy Adami is long CELG, EXAS, INTC, Guy Adami's wife, Linda Snow, works at Merck.

Summary: The "Fast Money" traders give their final trades of the day.


In February, East Coast ports handled 658,768 20-foot equivalent units (TEU), or just 3 percent less than the 673,318 TEUs handled by West Coast piers. That's a dramatic difference from July 2014, the month in which a coast-wide labor contract between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) expired—when the West Coast ports handled 33 percent more containers.

The subsequent nine-month labor dispute culminated in fierce gridlock at West Coast ports, with the country's two busiest container ports, in Los Angeles and Long Beach, racking up massive backlogs that are still being worked through.

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The ILWU and PMA reached a tentative deal for a new five-year agreement in late February that should be finalized in May. Meantime, even as operations at the ports have resumed, the backlogs have weighed on transportation companies' reported volumes and analysts have said the backlogs could still take weeks, even months, to subside.

The scenario has caused many shippers to bypass the West Coast, the fastest and most economical delivery point for goods coming into the country from Asia via ship, and reroute shipments to ports in other parts of North America, from Canada to Mexico to the U.S. Gulf.

Summary: While West Coast ports' labor strikes wreaked economic havoc, East Coast ports have emerged as the clear winner.


Personal Capital is another app that's like Mint. It aggregates all your financial information in one place but also makes investment suggestions.

The company, a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA) with the SEC, manages more than $1 billion in assets and tracks a total of $120 billion in registered users' personal funds. The app focuses primarily on investing and retirement planning, and gives you useful features such as the 401(k) Fee Analyzer that tells you how much your retirement plan is costing you.

Another option is their Investment Checkup tool, which recommends an asset allocation based on your risk profile.

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Summary: Wondering how to manage your finances better? These apps can help.


But the jobless rate, which has fallen from a recession-high of 10 percent to 6.7 percent in February, was approaching the threshold so quickly that Fed officials believed the guideline no longer carried much weight.

So last week, at Yellen's first policy-setting meeting as Fed chair, the Federal Open Market Committee members dropped the pledge and said they would look at a wide range of factors to determine the timing of a rate hike, which would in any case not come for a "considerable time" after the Fed wraps up its bond-buying program later this year.

Kocherlakota has made it clear that he would prefer the Fed be more specific about the factors that will determine the rate- hike timetable. He has also showed no sign of deserting his conviction that the economy needs more, not less, stimulus.

Kocherlakota has not ruled out another dissent.

(Watch: Fed's Fisher: Asset buying should end in October)

In 2011, the last year the Minneapolis Fed chief had a right to a vote on the policy-setting panel under the Fed's roster of rotating votes, Kocherlakota dissented on an August decision to pledge to keep rates near zero for at least two more years.

The economy, he thought, did not need the extra stimulus. Still, he vowed to "abide by" the pledge.

The very next month, he dissented again, but this time for a different reason: He disagreed with the Fed's decision to ease policy further with the launch of an asset-purchase program known as Operation Twist.

Kocherlakota stopped dissenting after that, even though the Fed continued to promise low rates until mid-2013 and buy assets under Operation Twist.

After a while, he even stopped publicly questioning the wisdom of easing monetary policy, and by October 2012, joined those at the Fed who fully supported further easing.

He did not dissent again until last week.

Summary: Minneapolis Fed Bank President Narayana Kocherlakota has no plans to make a habit of saying "no," people familiar with his thinking say.


(Corrects conversion in second paragraph to 39 square miles from 60)

* New field could hold 30 trillion cubic feet of gas

* Discovery comes as Egypt struggles to meet energy needs

* Italy's Eni has full rights to develop the site

ROME/MILAN, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Italian energy group Eni said on Sunday it had discovered the largest known gas field in the Mediterranean off the Egyptian coast, predicting the find could help meet Egypt's gas needs for decades to come.

The Italian major said in a statement the offshore "Zohr" field could hold 30 trillion cubic feet of gas, covering an area of about 100 square kilometres (39 square miles).

"Zohr is the largest gas discovery ever made in Egypt and in the Mediterranean Sea and could become one of the world's largest natural-gas finds," it said, adding that it had full concession rights to the area.

The find follows other significant gas discoveries in the Mediterranean in recent years, including off neighbouring Israel. This is expected to have a major impact on the region's economy and potentially offer Europe new supply options, allowing it to lessen its dependence on Russian gas imports.

It also represents a major boost for Egypt, where power cuts caused by gas and oil shortages have often fuelled unrest.

Eni said the discovery was located at a depth of 1,450 metres (4,757 ft), adding that it planned to fast track development of the site, using existing infrastructure. It said yet more gas might be uncovered in future drilling.

Eni, 30 percent controlled by the Italian state, is the biggest foreign oil and gas producer in Africa, where it has significant operations in war-riven Libya. In 2011 it made huge finds in offshore Mozambique, with an estimated 85 trillion cubic feet of gas in place.

It has operated for more than 60 years in Egypt and is one of the main energy producers in the country, with a daily output of 200,000 barrels of oil equivalent.

In June, it signed an energy exploration deal with Egypt worth $2 billion, allowing Eni to explore in Sinai, the Gulf of Suez, the Mediterranean and areas in the Nile Delta.

In July, Egypt raised the prices it pays Eni for the natural gas it produces.

"This historic discovery will be able to transform the energy scenario of Egypt," said Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi, who met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday to discuss the find.

Egypt, which once exported gas to Israel and elsewhere, has become a net energy importer over the last few years.

Under Sisi, Egypt's state-owned gas company EGAS has increasingly rationed gas supplies to much of the domestic industry, which has at times crippled production and hampered the economic recovery.

The government has also attempted to improve the energy situation by slashing state energy subsidies, paying down its debt to foreign energy firms, and negotiating import agreements.

(Additional reporting by Eric Knecht in Cairo; Editing by Stephen Jewkes)

Summary: *Discovery comes as Egypt struggles to meet energy needs.  "Zohr is the largest gas discovery ever made in Egypt and in the Mediterranean Sea and could become one of the world's largest natural-gas finds," it said, adding that it had full concession rights to the area. It also represents a major boost for Egypt, where power cuts caused by gas and oil shortages have often...


06/08/2015 AT 09:15 AM EDT

Violence erupted at a major hip-hop concert featuring

Sunday night at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, resulting in a temporary lockdown of the stadium and tear gas to control angry crowds.

The disturbance began when crowds of people began to force their way into the sold-out Hot 97 Summer Jam concert, which resulted in New Jersey State Police in riot gear blocking the gates outside of MetLife Stadium, actions which angered many in the crowd, according to the

An armored state police vehicle began to blast a piercing loud noise to try to disperse the crowd, according to the AP and

, and police later deployed tear gas.

Group fights broke out, bottles were thrown, and other disturbances were reported outside the venue, including a number of arrests and injuries, according to

"This evening, security personnel at one of the entrance gates to MetLife Stadium were confronted by crowds attempting to illegally enter the sold out Summer Jam concert by climbing over fences and forcing their way through security personnel," New Jersey State Police said in a statement released Sunday night. "The gates have been shut and troopers on site have called for assistance from several nearby stations to help maintain order."

Janae Griffin, who drove up from Baltimore for the concert but wasn't able to get inside, told the AP the parking lots outside were chaotic.

"People were throwing bottles across the crowd," she said. "We got into a confrontation with a guy who was deliberately trying to vandalize a police car and was just making it worse of a situation than it needed to be."

However, other attendees said they waited for hours to try to enter a concert for which they had already paid.

"Barbaric – the way they treat our people is like animals," another concertgoer told CBS New York. "If there was another concert this would've never happened."

Filmmaker Nimi Hendrix posted a photo of police in riot gear on

alongside the caption, "Corn balls killed summer jam trying to bum rush the gate and throwing bottles â¦ now they blocked off the gates."

photo of himself on stage.

Summary: Several injuries and arrests were reported at the sold-out hip-hop concert featuring Chris Brown


The 20 percent plunge in LinkedIn's stock price on Friday was not so shocking, according to UBS analyst Eric Sheridan, who said it was a sign of growing pains.

UBS has a 12-month buy rating and a 12-month price target of $230 for the stock, which was trading at around $201.80 on Friday afternoon following its weak guidance for the second quarter and the year.

"If you take a look simply at the cut in their forward profitability guidance, the EBITDA, it's a cut of about 20 percent; the stock is down 20 percent so from that perspective it's relatively fair," Sheridan said in an interview with CNBC's "Squawk Alley."

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He estimated that 80 percent of the cut in estimates was tied to foreign exchanges and the integration of lynda.com, the online education tool recently acquired by LinkedIn.

"Those are unlikely to repeat in 2016 so the conversations we are having about investors is how much of the core business here is actually hurt or damaged going forward," said Sheridan. "We think there is some miscues from operation, but the core philosophy, the core what's going on at LinkedIn, really isn't much changed."

Share tumbled after LinkedIn on Thursday forecast 2015 profit of $1.90 per share, excluding items, on revenue of about $2.90 billion. It had earlier forecast earnings of $2.95 per share on revenue of $2.93 billion to $2.95 billion.

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A report released by UBS on Thursday indicates that LinkedIn has the possibility to benefit from growing mobile engagement, the expansion of sales solution, and the Chinese market.

LinkedIn has now surpassed 350 million members, compared to more than 300 million members from the last quarter of 2014 to the first quarter of 2015.

The core of LinkedIn being the same, Sheridan said, the disappointing guidance is tied to the company expanding.

"There is no doubt that LinkedIn is going through their growing pain," he said.

—Reuters contributed to this story.

Summary: LinkedIn's disappointing guidance is tied to the acquisition of lynda.com and fx and won't prevent growth, UBS' Eric Sheridan tells CNBC.


This is as good an introduction to Ai Weiwei as we are likely to see in London in the near future. The publicity surrounding the cloud of porcelain dust caused by Ai's field of ceramic sunflower seeds at Tate Modern, and the controversy over his continuing imprisonment without access to lawyers or a confirmation of his supposed crimes, make this show all the more timely.

Focusing on sculpture and films made in the past decade, it is both beautiful and haunting, haunted most of all by Ai's absence. Two empty chairs, an empty coffin, empty vessels, long videos of Beijing streets, empty roads, people passing; marble doors piled up like wreckage, achingly empty quince-wood cabinets, each as big as a wardrobe, pierced by asymmetrical holes through which one sees a passing moon. And a CCTV camera, like the ones that monitored Ai outside his studio, but carved in dead white marble. Maybe he was focusing on the familiar, a thing that also looked back at him.

It all feels very poignant and elegiac, even though these works were made at different times, for different reasons. Ai's work looks utterly contemporary while looking into the past. He also gives us a jolt and something unexpected, past and present, east and west in a peculiar synthesis.

Both the oversized coffin, made of wood salvaged from demolished Qing dynasty temples, and the Moon Cabinets, are immaculately constructed using traditional Chinese techniques, without glue, nails or screws. The coffin takes a sharp angle, part way along its length, like a crooked death.

Made using the same Ming Dynasty joinery methods, a large wooden polyhedron is based on a plastic cat's toy but follows the form of a drawing Leonardo da Vinci made, in the 1509 Divina Proportione. Groups of neolithic clay vases, each dunked in garish industrial paints, again collide ancient and modern, a clash of values and sensibilities. Their colour is stunning, the drools of paint both dumb desecration and elegant, almost respectful glaze. The chairs are Qing dynasty copies, the marble giving them a classical air and a tawdry bathroom chic. You can admire their shapes, again carved from single blocks, but hate the things themselves, the perversity that they exemplify.

The videos go on for hours, with their static shots of roads, bridges, dawns, dusks, cyclists and passers-by becoming a sort of ambient cinema of life elsewhere. The silent Chang'an Boulevard lasts over 10 hours, and is a sort of Chinese take on Warhol's early films and Ed Ruscha's documentation of the buildings on Sunset Strip. Less a film to study than just to be with, it is none the worse for that. I'd like to have it in my room, just running on and on.

Summary: Focusing on sculpture and films made in the past decade, this show is both beautiful and haunting, finds Adrian Searle


French President, Francois Hollande, has consistently pledged to lower the unemployment rate, which stood at 10.6 percent in March, according to Eurostat. Indeed, he has even said he will not run for re-election in 2017 if he fails to create more jobs.

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Speaking at the OECD Forum 2015 in Paris, Gurria stressed that high unemployment in the country was a legacy of the region's financial crisis, and that the jobless rate had peaked in Europe. However, he added that more needed to be done in terms of structural reforms.

"Now it's structural policy that you (France) need to focus on and that takes time," he said. "It's about education, innovation, flexibility in the labor and product markets. It's about regulation and more competition and how you deal with your financial sector and taxation…These things all have one thing in common, which is that they take time to show results."

The OECD was engaged in a very "fluid dialogue" with the French authorities and President Hollande and has discussed policy options with them, Gurria added.

"We are very active in this dialogue…But it's up to each country to decide then how far they want to go," he said.

Summary: Despite French unemployment hitting a fresh record high in April, the head of the OECD insisted that France isn't the "sick man of Europe."


'Seen as unique and compelling by our readers and as adding real value to the package, the New Review is a supplement to keep and return to throughout the week.'Jane Ferguson, editor, the New Review

The New Review is at the heart of the Observer, delivering intelligent, incisive and lively coverage across a broad range of topics.

Editorial is wide ranging, covering TV, film, books, games, dance, music, theatre, art, architecture, science and technology, and ensuring that there is something for everyone. In depth articles, interviews, reviews and stunning photography ensure a varied read and high profile columnists such as David Mitchell, Mark Kermode and Paul Morley make the New Review an unmissable Sunday read.

Summary: Recently expanded and re-designed, the New Review is at the heart of the Observer, delivering intelligent, incisive and lively coverage across a broad range of topics


* Committee votes 7-0 to hold policy rate at 1.50 pct

* Says current policy rate supportive to growth

* Weak baht, govt stimulus will boost economic recovery

* C.bank sees 2015 GDP growth lower than 3 pct

BANGKOK, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Thailand's central bank left its benchmark interest rate unchanged for a third straight meeting on Wednesday, as widely expected, saying a weak baht and recently unveiled stimulus measures should be supportive to economic growth.

The Bank of Thailand said monetary policy would continue to be accommodative to help the economy that is expected to grow less than 3 percent this year as there are "more negative factors than positive ones, especially from overseas."

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted 7-0 to leave the one-day repurchase rate at 1.50 percent, near record lows.

Last month, the committee also unanimously voted for no change. It unexpectedly cut the rate in two back-to-back meetings in March and April to try to shore up confidence.

"The Thai economy continues to face negative factors, particularly a slowing global economy and higher volatility in the global financial markets," the MPC said in a statement after the meeting.

"However, monetary conditions, including exchange rate development, remain supportive to the economic recovery."

The MPC reiterated that a weakening of the baht was supporting the economic recovery. The baht has depreciated about 8.6 percent against the dollar so far this year and policymakers are hoping it will lift sagging exports.

The military government has struggled to move Southeast Asia's second-largest economy forward since seizing power in May 2014 to end months of political unrest as exports have long been weak and high household debt has crimped domestic demand.

Twenty of 21 economists polled by Reuters had predicted no change and one predicted a 25 basis-point cut.

Still, some economists think a further rate cut is possible.

"With the economy still in deflation and struggling for momentum, we think it is too soon to rule out a further rate cut this year," said Capital Economics.

"Overall, we still think there is a chance that the BOT will make one more 25 bp cut this year if growth continues to disappoint despite the government's fiscal efforts," it added.

Annual consumer prices have declined for eight straight months, giving policymakers more leeway to ease. The central bank said on Wednesday it expected consumer prices to rise in the first quarter of next year.

Growth was forecast to come in at less than 3 percent this year, after growth was just 0.9 percent last year, the lowest since flood-hit 2011. The central bank is due to give a new estimate on Sept. 25.

(Reporting by Orathai Sriring and Kitiphong Thaichareon; Additioanl reporting by Viparat Jantraprap; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)

Summary: BANGKOK, Sept 16- Thailand's central bank left its benchmark interest rate unchanged for a third straight meeting on Wednesday, as widely expected, saying a weak baht and recently unveiled stimulus measures should be supportive to economic growth. The Bank of Thailand said monetary policy would continue to be accommodative to help the economy that is...


01/04/2016 AT 09:30 PM EST

The Kardashians take New York City in Sunday's episode of

... and they're bringing plenty of drama with them.

The sisters travel to the Big Apple to support

during New York Fashion Week – with

also strutting her stuff in brother-in-law

was there for support, as shown in a clip from Sunday's week's

, and that led to some sparks flying.

While it appears to be all fun and games, the real drama occurs between Kim and older sister

over the launch of their websites and apps.

"You're not special, sorry," Kim tells Kourtney while

Notably at the time of the debut of their respective sites and apps, all of the sisters were accounted for except the mother of three. Kourtney's

would go live months later.

Fans will likely learn a little more about the delay in the upcoming episode Sunday.

airs Sunday (9 p.m. ET) on E!

Summary: The siblings hit New York to support Kendall's modeling career


"To catch a death actually happening and embalm it for all time is something only cameras can do," writes Susan Sontag in Regarding the Pain of Others, "and pictures taken out in the field of the moment of (or just before) death are among the most celebrated and often reproduced of war photographs."

Sontag goes on to describe the context in which Eddie Adams took what was arguably the most shocking image of the Vietnam war: the moment in which a South Vietnamese police officer executes a Vietcong suspect by shooting him point-blank in the head. She points out that the picture was both authentic and staged – "by General Loan, who had led the prisoner, hands tied behind his back, out to the street where journalists had gathered. He would not have carried out the summary execution there had they not been available to witness it". Wearily, Sontag concludes that "one can gaze at these faces for a long time and not come to the end of the mystery, and the indecency, of such co-spectatorship".

I was reminded of that final quotation when, a few weeks ago, I navigated the winner's gallery of the World Press Photo of the Year website. There, amidst the many dramatic images of conflict, death and destruction, was a series by an Associated Press photographer, Farah Abdl Warsameh, entitled Stoned to Death, Somalia, 13 December. The four images are shocking in a way that even the most graphic war reportage seldom is any more. The first shows the victim being buried up to his neck in earth. The second shows a group of men, their faces concealed by headscarves, raining rocks down on his head. The third shows his bloodied torso being dragged out of the soil. The last shows the men hurling large rocks at his prone and lifeless body to finish off their gruesome ritual. There are no captions; we are left to guess the context.

One's immediate instinct on coming upon the photographs is to recoil in horror, which is what almost everyone I showed them to did. A colleague described them as "a kind of pornography of suffering". (The Sunday Times ran the series last week in their Spectrum section devoted to the World Press awards. Many readers were outraged and appalled.)

Last week, in a blogpost for Foto8 magazine, the veteran picture editor, Colin Jacobson, wrote that "the rather disgusting pictures … raised some interesting ethical matters", which is one – somewhat understated – way of putting it. More problematically, Jacobson said that "obviously there was collaboration between the photographer and those carrying out this gruesome death sentence". Perhaps. But what kind of collaboration? Unlike the shooting of the Vietcong suspect, the dreadful execution of the Somalian man would seemingly have gone ahead at that time had the photographer not been present. (Other images from the series, not included in the World Press selection, show an audience of villagers who had gathered to witness the execution.) On that level, the photographer did not collaborate with the killers, though he almost certainly gained permission from someone to shoot the stoning. He also shot every stage of the killing in all its protracted and torturous barbarity. What it takes to do that, and at what personal cost, only he can say.

Images as extreme as these beg so many questions about the morality of reportage. Did the photographer, one wonders, have any communication with the victim in the time leading up to the event? Would our reaction to the photographs be different if we knew that the condemned man granted the photographer permission to bear witness to his dreadful death? Would it be different if we knew that the photographer risked his own life to travel though strife-torn Somalia to bear witness, which, as one of the respondents to Jacobson's blog points out, was probably the case. Does such extremity diminish us or enlighten us? Or simply shock us into a kind of impassioned helplessness?

Part of the complex power of these photographs comes from what Sontag calls the "provocation" inherent in all images of real suffering. The first of many questions they ask is: "Can you look at this?" Perhaps Sontag comes closest to articulating the moral dilemma at the heart of extreme images of suffering when she writes: "There is shame as well as shock in looking at the close-up of a real horror. Perhaps the only people with the right to look at images of suffering of this extreme order are those who could do something to alleviate it … or those who could learn from it. The rest of us are voyeurs, whether or not we mean to be."

Nigeria is the sixth largest producer of oil in the world and one of the main suppliers to America. Subtitled 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta, Ed Kashi's exhibition, Curse of the Black Gold, chronicles the long-term human and environmental cost of oil exploitation in west Africa. You can see this monumental work of reportage at London's Host Gallery.

• This article was amended on 9 March 2010. The quote at the end of the second paragraph erroneously had Susan Sontag referring to "co-authorship", rather than co-spectatorship.

Summary: Do you look away from images of real-life horror, or look closer? A series of shocking photographs from Somalia asks disturbing questions about the ethics of bearing witness


The province's two main parties - the protestant Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Catholic Sinn Fein - have been struggling to reach a compromise during three days of talks in Scotland.

The DUP had been refusing to govern alongside Sinn Fein, while Sinn Fein was reluctant to recognise Northern Ireland's police force.

Both sides have now said that they will consult their members and study the proposals in detail before making a final decision.

Ian Paisley, the DUP leader, has suggested that the proposals are something his party can accept.Â Â Â "Today we stand at a crossroads," he said. "We stand at a place where there is a road to democracy and there is a road to anarchy and I trust that we will see in the coming days the vast majority of people taking to the road of democracy."

Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein's president, asked his party to consider the plan carefully. "We need to find ways to put divisions behind us," he said.

"I think we have a way forward here".Tony Blair, British Prime MinisterThe agreement includes suggested changes to the workings of the local assembly which was set up as part of 1998 peace deal to give pro-British Protestants and pro-Irish Roman Catholics a joint say in the province's affairs.Â Â Â The deal recognises all parties' rights to take part in local government and requires full endorsement of the police.

"I think we have a way forward here".Tony Blair, British Prime Minister

Northern Ireland's Catholics have long mistrusted the Protestant-dominated police force and have previously refused to fully endorse it until power-sharing administration was in place.Â Â Â The parties must accept or reject the governments' plan by November 10.

If they agree to the suggestions, preparations will get under way for restoring local government and responsibility for the province's government departments could be transferred from Britain to local hands on March 26.

If they don't, London will shut the assembly, stop members' salaries and continue running the province from Westminster, with greater input from Dublin.

Tony Blair, the British prime minister, was upbeat about the chances for success. "I think we have a way forward here," he said.

The 1998 Good Friday Agreement largely ended three decades of violence between majority Protestants committed to ties with Britain and a Catholic minority in favour of a united Ireland.

The Northern Ireland Assembly was suspended four years ago and repeated attempts to revive it have failed.

Summary: Britain and Ireland have put forward a plan for reviving self-rule in Northern Ireland that has been suspended since 2002.


You may have always suspected what your furry friend’s favourite activity is but now you can know for sure, thanks to a new piece of technology.

From rolling in the dirt to eating food, the goings on of your dog’s life can now be caught on camera and directly uploaded onto its social media account.

The Posting Tail – created by dog food company Pedigree and ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi Madrid – is a camera-equipped vest that you put on your dog.

According to the ad campaign, when your pooch sees something it likes, it wags its tail in a certain way.

A sensor, which is attached to the dog’s tail, senses the movement and sends a signal to the camera.

It then snaps a picture, posting it to Facebook through a 3G Wi-Fi dongle - and to make it even more accurate, it grabs GPS data, allowing you to know which place makes your dog the happiest.

There’s still no word on when the technology will be available, but it’s sure to make playtime with your pooch all the more enjoyable.


04/27/2016 AT 04:45 PM EDT

to re-release her 1991 hit "Baby Baby" – and we're so glad!

PEOPLE has a first listen to the new version of the song, which turns 25 this year. Grant and her label were trying to come up with a fun way to commemorate the No. 1 hit when they decided to tap recent best new artist Grammy nominee Kelly, 23.

"I was thrilled to hear that Tori was on board to record it," Grant, 55, tells PEOPLE. "Although I had not met Tori at that point, my 15-year-old daughter, Corrina, is a big fan of Tori's and so I was very aware of her incredible talent and was honored she would sing this song."

In the end, producer Dave Garcia paired Kelly's newly recorded version with Grant's 25-year-old vocals.

"Tori is such an incredible vocalist, one of the most effortless singers I have ever heard, and once she starts singing it is like a rocket engine has been strapped on to the song and she takes us all on a ride," adds Grant. "I really think she knocked it out of the park."

The inspiration for the track came about when Grant, suffering from a bout of writer's block, was trying to write a song about her daughter Millie, now 26.

"I had played with a few lyric ideas but nothing was working," she says. "And then one day I looked down at my new daughter and thought 'Oh baby, baby,' and the lyric just poured out of me in about 10 minutes."

Amy Grant and Tori Kelly's #BabyBabyTurns25 cover

With the new track dropping everywhere Friday, Grant hopes it'll give fans old and new a boost of nostalgia.

"I have heard from so many people who say they grew up singing the song, or that they sang 'Baby, Baby' to their children when they were young and they are excited to hear a new version," she says.

"My hope is that those who loved the original will enjoy the breath of fresh air that Tori puts into the song and that perhaps the song will find a brand new audience of younger listeners who weren't even born when the original was on the radio."

Summary: "Tori is such an incredible vocalist, one of the most effortless singers I have ever heard," Grant says of her up-and-coming collaborator


Celebrating America's birthday is a blast with NBC's exclusive presentation of the annual Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular. The centerpiece of this breathtaking, LIVE summer special is the nation's largest patriotic pyrotechnic display, with over 40,000 fireworks illuminating the night sky over the Hudson River. The nation’s top musicians perform their hottest hits, and the biggest Hollywood stars are on hand to help honor Independence Day.

NBC is lighting up the night with star-studded surprises and a dazzling display of fireworks that never fails to thrill. It's America’s birthday, and you're invited!

Studio Universal Television, Brad Lachman Productions

Summary: NBC celebrates the nation's birthday with its annual Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular.


During Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera's rapid rise to fame in the late '90s, both stars were subjected to endless scrutiny and speculation that they upgraded their physical assets.Now, new photos may provide confirmation – at least for one of them.Aguilera, in Tokyo Tuesday to promote her film "Burlesque," raised her arm to greet spectators, revealing a scar in her right armpit.The incision is a common sign of transaxillary endoscopic breast augmentation, according to the Daily Mail, where implants are inserted through the armpit.The 29-year-old mother of one has never directly commented on the rumors that she may have had a boob job, but Aguilera seemed hardly concerned at the event about potentially revealing her secret.The singer, who turns 30 later this month, happily posed with a birthday cake while her co-stars, Kristen Bell and Cam Gigandet, clapped.

A rep for Aguilera has not yet commented on the Daily Mail's claim.

Summary: After years of scrutiny and speculation about upgrading her physical assets, there may now be photo proof that Christina Aguilera had a boob job.


Smartphone cameras have been a blessing, allowing us to capture the moment, any moment — nay, almost every moment — with just the tap of the screen. But the curse that comes alongside all these photos is how they gobble up storage space not just on your handset, but also on your computer.

Part of the problem is that most digital packrats don’t delete the flotsam and jetsam of our daily lives (how long should you keep those blurry snaps of last year’s July 4th fireworks?). But the bigger issue is that the more photos we take, the more files we have. Every Instagrammed latte is another failed attempt at feeding the photo monster.

To take some of the edge off, several popular cloud-based photo storage services have popped up to help you store your precious moments. Here’s a look at five popular choices:

The newest pic product on the block, Google Photos seems to have taken the best of every other service and rolled them into one great offering. But it’s by no means perfect. Available on Android, iOS or through a web browser, Google Photos gives users unlimited free storage for their standard-resolution images. As smooth looking and fluid feeling as you’d expect from a Google-made app, Photos displays, organizes, and shares your pictures better than anything available. In fact, it’s the display and organization where this product really stands out. Categorizing images with People, Places, and Things tags, it uses facial recognition, GPS location, and image search capabilities to make searching your photos easier than ever before.

But the tradeoff for this incredible convenience is privacy. After uploading his photos to Google’s service, Fortune’s Philip Elmer-DeWitt had second thoughts about Google’s use of his data. Be sure to actually read the terms of service on this one before you send your pictures into the cloud.

If you’ve got any Apple handheld product, there’s a good chance that you’re already using this service (and you may not even realize it), through something called “Photo Stream.” This is representative of how convoluted and confusing Apple’s online photo storage options have become. Actually, Apple has two online photo storage solutions: Photo Stream and iCloud Photo Library. The former stores your 1,000 most recent photos in the cloud, making them accessible across all your devices for free. The latter backs up all your photos ever and is free if you only use five gigabytes of space — though who could get away with that little storage? It’s more likely that you’ll have to pay, which ranges from monthly charges of $.99 for 20 gigabytes to as high as one terabyte for $20.

There’s no comparing that to Amazon or Google’s free-for-unlimited-storage pricing, but as far as user-friendliness is concerned, iCloud’s photo storage can’t be beat — so long as you’re purely an Apple user. Integrating into the company’s line of desktop and mobile apps, the service provides almost anything you’d want from a storage service, including access to Apple’s printing service and RAW file compatibility. It even has the ability to hunt down duplicate pictures to cut down on your digital clutter.

Unlimited online photo storage is one of several lesser-known perks of Amazon Prime membership, though non-Prime customers can pay $12 a year for the same deal. Whether it’s through a web browser, a mobile app, or a desktop program, the service lets users beam their pics up to the cloud. Compatible with Android, iOS, Mac, and PC, its cross-platform nature gives users access to their full photo library wherever they are: work, home or on the go.

While the promise of an infinitely large photo collection is alluring, the big knock on this service from current users is that it’s slower than it should be. But if good things come to those who wait, this should be enough (or maybe the speed will improve). Still, Amazon does store photos in their original, full resolution, which makes the unlimited offer attractive to archivists of all stripes.

A longtime favorite for storing files in the cloud, Dropbox released its Carousel app last year to make it easier for users to access web-archived photos. Though it started as one of the first cloud-based storage options, Dropbox’s free offering of two gigabytes is now far under par compared to the competition. The good news, however, is that its one terabyte for $10 per month deal is a better than average value—and if you can’t fill all that space with photos of your kids, you can store other files in there as well.

Carousel excels for those who use a wide range of devices, because Dropbox is compatible with operating systems ranging from Android to Ubuntu. Additionally, Carousel plays nicely with most social networks, letting users post images and videos online without a hitch. And sharing photos with others is as easy with Carousel as it is with Dropbox, which is to say, you can send over secure download links. If recipients also have Carousel, it’s a much better experience, keeping the photo transfer within the app. But since this application isn’t linked to an operating system like iOS or Android, it’s unlikely that you’ll encounter that coincidence.

Yahoo has been working hard to rebuild its image in recent years. One way it’s done that is by making changes to Flickr. A longtime favorite of photographers, Flickr has been storing people’s photos online since 2004, perhaps longer than any other popular service. And because it’s been around so long, Flickr has a lot of features packed into its offering, from an excellent image searching tool (type in “flower” and it will find all your best buds) to in-the-cloud editing options. In order to attract new users, Flickr announced last year that it’s offering a free terabyte of storage for every user. The free option is ad-supported, which means in addition to your selfies, you’ll also be looking at glam shots of models and products, but that’s the price of gratis.

Summary: Get the big picture on storing your photos in the cloud


WALL STREET has traditionally been home to bulls and bears. But lately, more extraordinary beings are finding their way to the trading rooms and executive suites of the city's financial community. These are the psychics, hypnotists and astrologers who bring an extra dimension to the already arcane science of investing money.

Call it a foolish fad, but believers claim that billions of dollars are managed by people who consult planetary movements in advance; and some 27.5 million Americans review the stars to make decisions, according to a 1990 Gallup poll. No one has calculated how many do so for investments, but a mini-industry has emerged around New-Age Wall Street. Consider: A hotel near the stock exchanges is offering a new guest service, a tarot card reader. At the Wall Street Hypnosis Center, 165 William Street, a dozen or so traders visit monthly to keep their unconscious minds honed for split-second decisions. And at the New York Astrology Center, Eighth Avenue at 37th Street, computers and stars are used for investment advice.

The Securities and Exchange Commission, while hardly endorsing metaphysics, finds nothing intrinsically wrong with such unorthodox means of analysis, if fully disclosed, says Michael Jones, a spokesman.

As J. P. Morgan once intoned: "Millionaires don't hire astrologers. Billionaires do." You . . . Are . . . Getting . . . Richer

The hypnotist's words flow like a stream, as New-Age music fills the book-lined room. "You're comfortably embraced by the clouds, floating and drifting, floating and drifting," Ruth Roosevelt purrs. "You get a perspective up here. You see opportunities you didn't realize you had."

Ms. Roosevelt, founder of the Wall Street Hypnosis Center, helps clients quit smoking, lose weight -- and make investment choices.

She continues: "Perhaps you see a trading pattern that needs to be changed."

She suggests to her client, Damon Vickers, chief equity strategist for Equigrowth Advisors, an investment company with $15 million under management, that he may find solutions in his subconscious. She says a new hedge fund he is establishing will be doing gangbuster business in a year's time.

"You've been making the money, because you've been disciplined," she says, seeking to underline one of his main trading goals. "You've reined in your emotions, so you have clarity of thought and purpose."

Ms. Roosevelt, who charges $100 an hour, began her practice two years ago, after a long career as a trader, most recently at Prudential Securities, where she was a vice president. She switched to hypnosis, she says, because of a fascination with the mind.

"There is very little I don't know about the emotions a trader can have," said Ms. Roosevelt, who studied hypnosis at, among other places, the New York Training Institute for Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

Ms. Roosevelt sees trading as akin to primitive humans dealing with physically dangerous situations. "At the moment of truth, is it fight or flight, attraction or retrenchment, fear or greed?" she asked. The goal is to bring control and composure to an overpowering situation. This comes from the unconscious, she says.

In practice, this means some traders have to learn to curb their urge to gamble, and let profits run. Others have to pull the trigger and take a sensible risk. Some have developed an aversion to picking up a phone and need to regress to earlier situations -- say, calling a girl (or a boy) for a date.

"The trance enhances their power," she said. "It will enable them to have greater control over themselves or other people."

To outsiders, it can seem a lot like losing control. Mr. Vickers thinks the benefits are such that he doesn't care if his customers know about his hypnosis. "If it bothers people, I don't want them as customers," he said. "I can't be anybody but myself." More Towels? Tarot?

Barrie L. Dolnick is the resident conjurer at the glossy Millenium Hotel at 55 Church Street. Just call the concierge and Ms. Dolnick, a 33-year-old former advertising executive in London and New York, will appear with tarot cards, charms and astrological charts.

Ms. Dolnick turned to conjuring full time because it had already proved profitable part time. At a rate of $100 an hour, she sees more than 200 regular clients in her Union Square office, in addition to those at the Millenium.

The other day, an insurance executive arrived at her hotel office.

"You're good at money, you can accumulate it, you want to accumulate it," Ms. Dolnick said after examining his astrological chart and having him flip a few tarot cards. "There's nothing wrong with that."

Then she had him flip three more cards, saw something nice and announced with a smile, "I can see money in the near future."

The man told her that a deal he had been pursuing for months was at a critical juncture. "Only today, it reached another level on the road to consummation," he said.

Ms. Dolnick told him to sign contracts between Feb. 12 and March 6, with an auspicious time for him being Feb. 27, when there is a full moon. He asked for some market direction. She said that European markets were stronger than those of developing nations. He should eschew blue-chip stocks for smaller company issues with greater growth potential. "You will gain much," she said.

The insurance man thanked her. She smiled and said, "Take two meditations and call me in the morning." Trading by the Stars

Henry Weingarten assumes he disappoints those who meet him. "I'm sorry, we don't wear Merlin hats anymore," he said. "Real astrologers sit by computers all day."

With the help of intricate computer programs that allow the inclusion of far more heavenly data, Mr. Weingarten says he can predict that the soaring stock market is due for a crash by Feb. 15. That, of course, is what he also foretold for August, September or October, and then November. "There's a rule in forecasting," he said with a laugh. "If you can't predict, predict often."

Mr. Weingarten has made some correct calls. In 1990, Barron's compared press releases the publication had received from Mr. Weingarten with what actually happened later on. Mr. Weingarten had foreseen the 1990 Tokyo stock market plunge, the Dow Jones average reaching 3,000 and the American economy's dip into a deeper recession.

Mr. Weingarten, 46, started up his New York Astrology Center while studying mathematics as a junior at New York University, where he has since taught adult-education courses in computer science. Today his center has six employees; about 15,000 people, he says, pass through each year, buying books and computer programs or having charts made; 100 high-net-worth people regularly seek his investment advice. The fee: $500 to $1,000 a consultation.

Mr. Weingarten insists that even the biggest institutions use astrological data but refuse to have their names associated with it. "There are billions of dollars both influenced and managed by astrologers," he said. "If you knew some of the firms, you'd be shocked." He declines to name any.

Last year, Mr. Weingarten began serving as executive astrological analyst for the American Futures Group, a national commodity trading firm. "There are people who trade commodities and believe strongly in astrology," said George Perk, president of American Futures. He stressed that astrology is invoked only at a customer's request.

Mr. Weingarten is now in the final stage of becoming licensed as a commodity trader, which will allow him to set up investment funds based on the stars. "The edge I've got is that I know certain things other people don't know," he said.

Photos: Ruth Roosevelt, founder of the Wall Street Hypnosis Center, working with Damon Vickers, chief equity strategist for the investment company Equigrowth Advisors. Barrie L. Dolnick, the resident conjurer at the Millenium Hotel, reading tarot cards for a Wall Street trader. (Norman Y. Lono for The New York Times); At the New York Astrology Center, Henry Weingarten consults the stars and computers to advise on investments. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)


trying to find love and more about the fact that everyone really hates Chad.

We already didn't like Chad because he

on the show, but this week, he took things to a whole new level by calling JoJo "naggy" and threatening to knock someone's teeth out. He also befriended Daniel the weird Canadian, so he obviously can't be trusted.

Before we get into Chad, though, we need to talk about Wells, because the poor kid almost kicked the bucket on the first group date of the season.

The men were taken to a fire academy and forced to compete against each other in a series of firefighter drills, which 1) proved JoJo can look good in anything, even those pants and 2) seemed rather unfair because Grant is a professional firefighter.

This looked utterly miserable. Wells probably weighs less than the 80 lbs. of equipment he was wearing and almost fainted several times. Then, as if the poor guy hadn't suffered enough already, he was selected as one of the three men to compete in the final challenge, which was to save JoJo from her (perfectly safe) perch at the top of a building. Spoiler alert: Grant won.

Daniel the weird Canadian made this joke, and we hate him: "The last time I've pulled hoses like that was back home when I was at my apartment."

JoJo and Luke made out and it was super intense. Calling it now, Luke is going to be final three.

Wells got the group date rose, probably mainly because JoJo was just glad he made it out of there alive.

We learned that erectile dysfunction expert Evan has kids. â¦ We have so many questions.

Oh, and at some point while this group date was going on, Chad was back at the house doing pull-ups with his suitcase full of protein powder attached to himself as a weight belt. #JustChadThings.

JoJo's date with Derek was sort of like a Choose Your Own Adventure Goosebumps book but way better because they got to choose things like which fabulous city they wanted their private jet to take them to.

They ended up in San Francisco, had a picnic on the water overlooking the Golden Gate bridge and bonded over the fact that both of them had been screwed over by their previous exes. (Looking at you,

She ended up giving him the rose and they kissed. Derek is very cute but just the tiniest bit boring.

Meanwhile, back at the house Chad and Daniel the weird Canadian sat by the pool wearing matching black tank tops and talking s--- about the other guys.

Chad made several terrible protein shake metaphors and said a lot of things that didn't make sense, like how the nice guys are actually the bad guys and also, protein.

"I knew you were cool the moment I met you." Red flag no. 14.

For the second group date, JoJo proved she's totally a guy's girl that loves sports and took the men to the ESPN studios to meet SportsNation hosts Max Kellerman and Marcellus Wiley.

The guys – which included Chad,

, Christian, Nick and James T. – were put through a series of silly challenges so that Max and Marcellus could power rank them.

So here's the thing: Anyone who watches this show knows that the group dates – especially early on – are absolutely cheesy and ridiculous and require the contestants to essentially make fools of themselves. Chad, however, has clearly never watched this show.

One of the tasks at hand was to propose to JoJo with a giant fake ring, and this is where Chad really shot himself in the foot by refusing to list the qualities he loves about her and accusing her of being "naggy" when she called him out for his sh---y proposal.

He also put the rest of the guys on blast and made the entire date just generally uncomfortable for everyone, and at this point you're probably thinking JoJo sent him home right then and there.

Well, you're wrong, because while JoJo seemed taken aback, she "appreciated Chad's honesty." Then, during the evening portion of the date, Chad somehow ended up turning things around for himself by telling JoJo that he has a puppy and also that his mom passed away six months ago.

At this point JoJo was "seeing a more sensitive side" of Chad and also making out with him while everyone at home screamed at their TV.

But not all hope was lost: Chad thankfully didn't end up getting the group date rose, with JoJo giving it to James T. instead. (He did read her that adorable note that made her cry, after all.)

The next night, Chad decided to ambush JoJo outside before she had even entered the cocktail party. This was extremely sketchy and even JoJo seemed frightened when he emerged from the shadows, plus everyone got really pissed off when they walked into the living room together.

Thankfully, Chase stole JoJo away first and made it fake snow by the fireplace because he's from Colorado and at this point we decided we love Chase. For a guy that didn't get a date this week, he really crushed it.

While this was going on, the rest of the guys were freaking out about Chad and taking turns confronting him, sort of.

As Chad put it: "It was like if the Care Bears surrounded you and told you they were going to kick your ass." Sad, but true.

Chad, meanwhile, really couldn't have given less of a s--- about any of this and was focusing on devouring enough food to feed an entire football team. Seriously, who eats that much lunchmeat in one sitting, or ever?

Whenever he wasn't eating meat on a stick, Chad was regularly interrupting the other guys' conversations with JoJo, which almost made Evan cry. Evan, it's going to be okay. Just have a kebab and relax.

Finally, Alex stepped in to

confront Chad about his behavior, at which point Chad lost it and threatened to knock Alex's teeth out.

This was rather frightening and made us wish Alex was just a couple of inches taller, for his sake.

Since James T., Derek and Wells already had roses, JoJo had 14 left to hand out. She ended up sending home Will, Brandon and

superfan James S. Sad to see you go, James.

did Daniel get a rose again? Damn you, ABC producers.

"She's going to keep Alex around because she doesn't want America to think that she hates short people."

"Christian. Christian, I don't even know who Christian is. Another short guy."

"I will not write her a song about how much I love her. I'm going to have some protein shakes, keep working out, keep eating food, and just continue doing what I do."

That's all for now, folks. Stay tuned for next week's two-episode special, which looks like it's shaping up to be

, part one and two.

airs Mondays (8 p.m. ET) on ABC.

Summary: Tensions were high as the men went on their first round of dates with Fletcher


Rewilding is here to stay. The term broadly refers to restoring areas of wilderness to their former glory, but it is the reintroduction of large mammals, from wolves to beavers, that has captured the popular imagination, and come to define this ambitious conservation strategy.

Such projects are not without controversy. Some ecologists worry that reintroducing extinct animals to our radically changed modern ecosystems might have unforeseen impacts.

Farmers and landowners, meanwhile, express concern about the effect interlopers like wolves or lynxes might have on their livelihoods.

Just imagine how they might react to the ideas proposed by a small but dedicated subset of extreme rewilders. In their vision, the plains of North America and Europe would become home to an even wilder array of species, including lions, elephants and cheetahs.

"In the beginning when we told people about this project they just laughed at us," says Ole Sommer Bach, curator of Randers Rainforest zoo, referring to his institution's plan to introduce a population of Asian elephants in northern Denmark. "I think most people thought it was some kind of provocation, or a practical joke; but it really wasn't."

This is Pleistocene rewilding. Advocates want to set the clock back not hundreds, but thousands of years. Around 13,000 years in fact, to when the Pleistocene era was drawing to a close: an almost incomprehensible length of time for us mortals, but the mere blink of an eye for Earth's ecosystems.

One correspondent labelled Greene a "goofball, dipwad, doofus with a scrambled brain"

Today, the planet's remaining 'megafauna' are largely restricted to Africa and Asia. But during the Pleistocene every continent was populated with enormous mammals, from the giant wombats of Australia to the various species of elephant that roamed North America and Europe.

The animals themselves are now gone. But the ecosystems that evolved with them remain, and their function is severely reduced in the absence of such keystone species.

But help could be at hand. Pleistocene rewilders suggest that some animals still found in Africa and Asia, many of which are on the verge of extinction themselves, are similar enough to their extinct counterparts to serve as effective proxies.

These ideas were first proposed by geoscientist Paul Martin as part of his Pleistocene overkill hypothesis, which holds that humanity was the key instigator of global megafauna extinctions. However, they were crystallised in their current form a decade ago by a team led by two researchers from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York: Josh Donlan and Harry Greene.

A team of what Greene calls "experts and visionaries" gathered together on a dusty New Mexico ranch. Together, they established a framework by which Pleistocene-type animals could be re-introduced to the US.

The underlying rationale was that current conservation efforts to return the US to a pre-Columbian benchmark (i.e. prior to 1492) are totally arbitrary. By this point, humans had already contributed to the extinction of dozens of species.

The result of this meeting was a landmark paper published in Nature simply entitled "Re-wilding North America". In it, the team envisages the release of, among others, Bactrian camels to replace the late Pleistocene Camelops, African lions to stand in for American lions, and elephants to take the place of the mammoths, mastodons and gomphotheres.

In the beginning when we told people about this project they just laughed at us

Their core aims were twofold. First, they wanted to restore North American ecosystems and re-establish long-gone ecological processes. Second, they offered "a compelling vision for 21st Century conservation biology: conserving animals away from Africa".

The response to the paper was extensive and frenzied. Fellow scientists, the media and members of the public all weighed in, with one correspondent labelling Greene a "goofball, dipwad, doofus with a scrambled brain".

More eloquent criticism came from the likes of evolutionary ecologist Dustin Rubenstein, who described Pleistocene rewilding as "only a slightly less sensational proposal" than Jurassic Park. Crucially, he and his fellow researchers opined that the resources invested in this kind of rewilding would be better spent protecting African animals in Africa.

But perhaps Pleistocene rewilding is not as outrageous as it first appears. Donlan, Greene and their colleagues were not, after all, suggesting a free-for-all on wild animal releases across North America. Instead, they suggested controlled, experimental releases to test their ideas.

That was in 2006. Ten years later, there are still no African lions prowling the Wild West, and barring the bolson tortoises reintroduced to their prehistoric range in New Mexico, rewilding efforts in the US have been few and far between.

What we want is to create room for natural processes

"In terms of realising Pleistocene rewilding projects, it's still pretty limited," says Jens-Christian Svenning, a researcher Aarhus University, Denmark, and advisor for the Randers elephant project. "The scientific literature on the subject is filled with debate, but the empirical work is really missing."

Across the Atlantic, however, governments and the public have been more amenable to rewilding in general. There have been many successful projects across Europe, and one or two have even had the 'Pleistocene' label applied to them.

Oostvaardersplassen in the Netherlands is an area of reclaimed wetland that is home to introduced Heck cattle, Konik ponies and red deer, mimicking the herbivore assemblages of ancient grasslands.

"What we want is to create room for natural processes," says Perry Cornelissen, an ecologist at the park. Instead of opting for artificial management systems to create the perfect habitat for wetland birds – the park's primary remit – its creators opted for a wilder approach. "The results of our monitoring show that the herbivores indeed create large-scale grasslands for geese and meadow birds such as lapwings and golden plovers," he enthuses.

More explicitly, there is Russia's Pleistocene Park, an attempt to "restore the mammoth steppe ecosystem" of the late Pleistocene. Much like Oostvaardersplassen, though, the park has so far drawn the line at introducing anything as exotic as lions or elephants.

When we mentioned them as a possibility for rewilding almost 15 years ago, people were also laughing at us

"The animals being released in these parks are still mainly from the Holocene era [11,700 years ago to present day]," says Svenning. "This is less provocative, and only a small step beyond traditional nature management where you use domestic horses or cattle to graze."

But now, Bach and his colleagues want to stake their claim for the wildest rewilding experiment yet. Under their watch, they hope to see elephants roam the Danish landscape for the first time in millennia.

The zoo has form when it comes to rewilding. Having successfully overseen the reintroduction of European bison in Randers, Bach and his colleagues see elephants as the natural progression.

"European bison have been extinct in Denmark for maybe 8,000 years, and when we mentioned them as a possibility for rewilding almost 15 years ago, people were also laughing at us," he recalls. "Now that is a reality."

Absolutely crucial to the project will be detailed preparation and monitoring. "We don't intend to just set them free and wait for them to end up in Spain or somewhere," explains Bach. "We will set up a fenced area, release the elephants and then carefully follow what happens."

If you built a machine that could do the same things as an elephant, you would probably become very rich

The team intends to follow everything from their interaction with native trees to the impact their dung has on insect communities.

This is exactly the kind of relatively small-scale experiment Greene and Donlan had in mind. Only with the hard data that result from hypothesis testing and science-based monitoring will it be possible to ascertain how effective such seemingly radical strategies are at creating positive ecosystem change of the type seen in Oostvaardersplassen.

Then there are the economic benefits that arise from preserving ecosystems in this way. "If you built a machine that could do the same things as an elephant, you would probably become very rich," says Bach. "They can do everything from coppicing to spreading seeds, and they already exist! We just need to use them."

And what about that other Pleistocene rewilding goal: realistically, how feasible is the idea of using rewilding as a conservation strategy for endangered, exotic mammals? The answer to this may come from the most unlikely of places: Australia.

Nowhere is the issue of species introduction more contentious than in Australia. Decades of accidental and intentional species introductions have left the continent with highly fragile ecosystems.

The mission is to airlift a population of white and black rhinos 11,000km from South Africa to Australia

Even relatively modest science-based efforts by Rewilding Australia to introduce native marsupials like quolls and Tasmanian devils to former parts of their ranges on the mainland have had setbacks to deal with.

In this climate, it seems foolhardy to suggest further large-scale introductions of alien species, but this is exactly what David Bowman, professor of environmental change biology at the University of Tasmania, did back in 2012.

Bowman argued that the way to deal with the influx of the giant African gamba grass, which has been implicated in the increase in bushfires in Australia, would be to introduce rhinos and elephants – the only herbivores large enough to eat it. These animals, while far removed evolutionarily speaking from Australia's gigantic Pleistocene marsupials, might still serve as viable stand-ins.

Remarkably, a project of this nature actually is underway, albeit for rather different reasons.

The Australian Rhino Project is a drastic response to the disastrous situation currently unfolding on the African continent. If poaching continues at its current rate, rhinos will be extinct in the wild by 2024.

It could actually have a beneficial effect in Australia as a whole, as well as safeguarding the rhinos

This issue is what led project founder Ray Dearlove and his collaborators to arrive at the same conclusion as the Pleistocene rewilders: these animals must be conserved away from Africa.

The mission is to airlift a population of white and black rhinos 11,000km from South Africa to Australia. If all goes to plan the first batch will be sent over this year.

Once there, the similar conditions in Australia – and, crucially, its relative lack of poachers – should provide the rhinos with a safe haven.

For Svenning, this project marks an interesting opportunity: "If they add an ecological component, then it could actually have a beneficial effect in Australia as a whole, as well as safeguarding the rhinos," he suggests.

The Australian banteng actually outnumber their endangered Asian counterparts

While careful monitoring of the rhinos and their interaction with the Australian environment will be key to the success of the project, Dearlove does not see such habitat management as the key element. Instead, he sees this project as an exciting new approach to ex-situ conservation.

"It has been suggested that this could become a model for other endangered species, whereby you take them to a safer place until things are sorted out in their native country, then you can return them," he says.

"I think rhinos should be in Africa. I would prefer them to be surviving and breeding where they are, but the reality is that they're not. They've roamed the continent for millions of years, and now South Africa holds around 95% of the rhinos in the world. They've been wiped out."

Intriguingly, Australia already has form when it comes to providing a refuge for threatened mammals. A population of banteng – wild cattle from Southeast Asia – was established on the continent in 1849, and now, owing to habitat decline in their homeland, the Australian banteng actually outnumber their endangered Asian counterparts.

Researchers have highlighted the precedent set by this accidental success story, stressing the role these banteng may play in the survival of the species.

The success of all these projects – whether or not they operate under the banner of Pleistocene rewilding – will provide crucial insights into the efficacy of transferring exotic creatures in order to protect either them or their adopted ecosystems.

Within the next 50 years, Asian elephants might be gone from the world entirely

In fact, maybe Pleistocene rewilding itself is an unhelpful label, which detracts from the bigger picture of enabling natural processes and preserving species. "We are not aiming at restoration of Pleistocene or indeed Holocene ecosystems or landscapes. Those eras are over," says Cornelissen. "We now live in the Anthropocene."

The Anthropocene is by definition a period of highly altered ecosystems resulting from human activity. In this context, bringing elephants to Denmark, or rhinos to Australia, might be seen as just another extreme alteration to our planet's wildlife assemblages.

But extreme times call for extreme measures, and bold conservation strategies such as these could go a long way to revitalising some of our most treasured ecosystems and creatures in a manner that is not only effective but self-sustaining.

"Within the next 50 years, Asian elephants might be gone from the world entirely," says Bach. "Most people in Europe see elephants as exotic, and don't consider it our responsibility to conserve exotic animals, but I think it is a global responsibility."

We can never get back everything that has been lost, but we can still make good use of the resources that remain at our disposal. To do that, we will need to think big.

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Summary: Thousands of years ago, elephants and lions roamed the plains and forests of Europe and North America. If some conservationists have their way, they will again


LONG before they'd made the acquaintance of Warren Beatty and Mike Nichols, and long before they'd won enough Oscars and Golden Globes to play a nice game of chess, Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman were a mismatched pair of struggling, idealistic actors who found solace in each other's company -- first in classes at the Pasadena Playhouse in 1956, where they played bongos on the roof, and then later in a cold-water flat in Manhattan, where Mr. Hoffman crashed in Mr. Hackman's kitchen until he was banished to the couch of some unwitting dupe named Robert Duvall. Though Mr. Hackman and Mr. Hoffman (now 73 and 66, respectively) have been friends for nearly half a century, they never worked on a film together until ''Runaway Jury,'' the latest installment in the John Grisham franchise. On a recent publicity stop in New Orleans for the film, opening Friday, the two men met with the writer Jennifer Senior to reminisce, gossip and reveal Marlon Brando's secret weapon.

JENNIFER SENIOR -- When you two met at the Pasadena Playhouse, there must have been something about each other you intuited immediately. What was it?

GENE HACKMAN -- Yeah, I've thought about that. (Looking at Hoffman.) You were a little different. Most of the kids there were right out of high school. I was older. And you were 18 or 19, but the first time I saw you, you were in a, uh, a corduroy vest. And that's all.

HACKMAN -- But just a corduroy vest. No shirt or anything. And I thought, ''This is a weird looking little guy.''

HOFFMAN -- I have no memory of this.

HACKMAN -- I only went one year ----

HOFFMAN -- Three months! He got kicked out for not having any talent.

HACKMAN -- We used to get graded on a scale of 1 to 10 for movement, interpretation, gestures ----

HOFFMAN -- Voice projection, which you always failed. So they kicked him out. But I was shocked, because he was still picked to be on their main stage.

HACKMAN -- But only because I was older, you know? In a play called ''The Curious Miss Caraway.''

HOFFMAN -- And guess who starred in it?

HACKMAN -- Zasu Pitts, a woman from the silent film era.

HOFFMAN -- And one day, he says to me, ''You have to come onstage with me during the daytime. You're not going to believe this.'' Written on the back of the couches and the stuffed chairs and everything were ----

HACKMAN -- Zasu Pitts's lines.

HOFFMAN -- She'd flit over to a certain chair for a certain line . . . (He gets up and demonstrates, as if reading.)

HACKMAN -- She was about 75, 80 years old.

HOFFMAN -- Of course, we understand that at our age. Brando has it down pat: he wears a hearing aid that you can't see, and a woman by the name of Caroline, who's off the set, feeds him his lines. Each one. Matthew Broderick told me he didn't know this when he did ''The Freshman'' with Brando. He told me that on his first day, he was sitting in his dorm on the edge of his bed, and Brando was on the other bed, and they were facing each other, and he was so intimidated -- Marlon Brando! So they started the take, and he's talking, and Brando answers, and then he talks some more, and Brando answers, and the camera's rolling, and Brando keeps looking at Matthew, and suddenly, he says: ''Caroline? Caroline! Are you eating a tuna fish sandwich right now? Caroline? Because I can't understand what you're saying! Stop eating that tuna fish sandwich!''

HACKMAN -- (Doubled over.) Now that's funny.

SENIOR -- When you two were living together, were you especially competitive with each other? You both had your breakout films in 1967, which probably helped ----

HOFFMAN -- Do you know why? Did you know that he was Mr. Robinson, originally, in ''The Graduate''? And he got fired. That's how he got into ''Bonnie and Clyde.'' Warren found out he was available.

SENIOR -- Did you land him the role in ''The Graduate''?

HOFFMAN -- No. I had nothing to do with it. I would have done everything in my power to not have him in it. I didn't want to be upstaged.

SENIOR -- Why were you fired from ''The Graduate''?

HACKMAN -- Probably because I hadn't committed to the character. I just wasn't showing them what could happen.

HOFFMAN -- Gene believes in holding off for as long as you can before you commit. So that when you commit, it's not a conscious choice; it comes out on its own. And that scares a lot of producers and directors.

HACKMAN -- We were both jealous of Bobby Duvall, because he got the work very early on, whereas I was in New York seven or eight years before I got a professional job. And you were even longer, right?

HOFFMAN -- Yes. It's a freak accident that we, all three of us, made it. Gene went on auditions many times and put his 8-by-10 glossy underneath the door, knocked once and ran.

SENIOR -- Was that effective?

HOFFMAN -- Yes. It saved him a lot of pain of rejection.

HACKMAN -- To this day, I do the same relaxation exercises I was taught in acting class in 1956 or whenever it was.

SENIOR -- What are they?

HOFFMAN -- Think of your best sexual experience.


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Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas had some words about Donald Trump's campaign rallies on Friday night.

Shortly after Trump canceled a scheduled rally in Chicago due to "security concerns" stemming from protests at the event, Cruz accused the Trump campaign of inciting the unrest.

"A campaign bears responsibility for creating an environment where the candidate urges supporters to engage in violence," Sen. Cruz said.

Cruz is referring to the multiple occasions in which Trump has suggested protesters should be "roughed up." In recent days, anti-Trump demonstrators have allegedly been assaulted at Trump events.

On a separate occasion last month, Trump spoke to his audience about another protester, saying "Knock the crap out of him, would you? Seriously, OK just knock the hell — I promise you I will pay for the legal fees. I promise, I promise."

In his own remarks after the protests Friday night, Cruz said he wants to "appeal to civility in the democratic discourse."

"We can have genuine differences but can do so in a way that appeals to our better angels, not our worst," Cruz said.

Cruz also threw some of the blame at President Barack Obama, accusing Obama of using moments of crisis over the course of his presidency to "divide" the country.

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Ted Cruz: Trump's campaign 'affirmatively encourages violence'

Texas Solicitor General R. Ted Cruz, left, and Don. R. Willett, right, leave the federal courthouse after a pre-trial hearing on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2003, in Austin, Texas. Lawyers and federal judges met earlier to plan for the upcoming redistricting trial. Willett is deputy Attorney General for Legal Counsel. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)

Ted Cruz, from the Texas Attorney General's Office, speaks to members of the House Ways and Means Committee Tuesday, April 18, 2006, in Austin, Texas. Texas lawmakers embark on a 30-day special session to repair the state's method of paying for public education. Cruz explained the court rulings on school finance to the committee. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)

UNITED STATES - MARCH 21: Ted Cruz (R) Texas (Photo By Douglas Graham/Roll Call)

Texas US Senate Republican primary candidate Ted Cruz, left, talks with his father Rafael Cruz as he works at the campaign's phone bank, on election day, Tuesday, May 29, 2012, in Houston. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

Texas Republican Ted Cruz speaks to reporters Tuesday, May 29, 2012, in Houston. Cruz placed second behind Lt. Gov. David Dewurst in a field of nine candidates in the Republican primary race for a U.S. Senate seat. Cruz and Dewhurst will square off in a second round of voting July 31. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

U.S. Senate Candidate Ted Cruz, right, has a discussion with David Dewhurst supporter Sherri Heinzman before the Texas Federation of Republican Woman luncheon during the Texas Republican Convention in Fort Worth, Texas, Friday, June 8, 2012. Cruz is competing with Dewhurst for the Republican nomination to replace retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. They face a runoff July 31 after no one in a crowded GOP field won a majority of the votes cast in last month's primary. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz arrives for a luncheon near the state Republican convention, Friday, June 8, 2012, in Fort Worth, Texas. (Ron T. Ennis/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/MCT via Getty Images)

U.S. Senate candidate candidate Ted Cruz and his wife, Heidi, wave to delegates after he spoke on the final day of the state Republican convention at the FWCC on Saturday, June 9, 2012, in Fort Worth, Texas. (Ron T. Ennis/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/MCT via Getty Images)

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2012 file photo, Sen.-elect Ted Cruz, R-Texas, left, smiles as he listens to campaign chief consultant Jason Johnson go over election results as they come in, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, speaks at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013. Cruz was scheduled to speak on the scope of treaty power in the U.S. Constitution. Photographer: Pete Marovich/Bloomberg via Getty Images

FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2014 file photo, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas talks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Never mind dropping oil prices. U.S. producers are pushing harder than ever for the right to sell U.S. crude oil overseas. It might seem counterintuitive: Oil prices are as low as they have been at any point since 2009 and the height of the Great Recession. Depending on the projection, prices could drop further still with slowing economies across the world. Oil producers are playing a longer game, betting that long-term demand remains strong and new markets offer lucrative rewards for U.S. producers. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

LYNCHBURG, VA - MARCH 23: Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) stands on stage his his daughter, Catherine Cruz, 4, left, his wife, Heidi Cruz, and his older sister, Caroline Cruz, 6, right, after he made a speech announcing his candidacy for a presidential bid at Liberty University on Monday March 23, 2015 in Lynchburg, VA.(Photo by Matt McClain/ The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks as he campaigns Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)

Summary: Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas had some words about Donald Trump's campaign rallies on Friday night, and they weren't great.