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Wang Lingxiang, the chairman of the world's largest cashmere company, isn't worried about the effect of bitter Inner Mongolian weather on his goats or the latest fads on Paris catwalks. In the world of cashmere, he says, he calls the shots. Erdos Cashmere Products Co., based in Dongsheng in China's northeastern Inner Mongolia region, will be selling $50 million worth of shares to foreign investors next month.

A couple of suburban Manhattan high school kids who have their own rock band are practicing very late at night when the widowed father of one tells them it's time to break it up. When 17-year-old Joey (Neill Barry) starts to resist, his dad (James Quinn) snatches up the boy's guitar and smashes it. "Joey" (at the Monica 4-Plex) is as unexpected as the angry act that sets it in motion.