2.Not only are the markets ina deep funk, with volume low enough to make a grown stockbroker cry, but pessimism so profoundly pervades the ranks of professional advisors that skeptical contrarians are beginning to think that the next major surprise could well be to the upside.
3.It was filled with signs that they can bea force in the Western Conference, signs even that Lamar Odom, who had been struggling the last 10 days, was emerging from his funk.