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...There are extraneous scenes - namely Lopez's wrestling with a backyard raccoon problem - and an obviously fabricated character, Mary, who is simultaneously Lopez's editor, his ex-wife and his romantic interest. Thankfully, she's played by Catherine Keener, so the implausibility almost doesn't matter. Downey approaches Lopez as a sort of journalistic Michael Clayton, swapping George Clooney's suits for sweatshirts, and he's in perfect control of this bruised, cynical but good-hearted character. Though there are moments when Foxx's Ayers veers toward the puppyish, overall, it's a touching performance, and the best thing...
...state's financial role has in fact been shrinking throughout the past decade as its economy foundered. Last year, the university provost's office complained in a report to the Board of Regents that the state's "assumed allocation will put our state appropriation at a level that is almost $34 million lower than the amount that was appropriated for FY2002, in nominal dollars, and nearly $100 million lower in inflation-adjusted dollars." At the same time, the university has helped prop up the struggling local economy by approving more than $500 million in construction and renovation projects...
...What almost no one saw coming in Apple's results for the quarter that ended in March was that the company would sell nearly 3.8 million iPhones. Most educated guesses were around 3.1 million. In a world where securities analysts send spies to Apple stores and bribe hardware component suppliers in Taiwan for data on iPhone parts shipments, experts are not supposed to be off that much. It makes them look bad, but it makes Apple look good, both for its ability to keep things secret and for building a handset that is expensive, making it a real aspirational product...
Apple netted over $1.2 billion on revenue of almost $8.2 billion last quarter. Investors must have sensed that good things were coming. The firm's stock is up 42% this year which is unfair to people who have invested in almost any other company. The NASDAQ has only inched higher by 3% during the same period...
RIMM is doing well enough that its revenue rose 25% in the last quarter to almost $3.5 billion. That means it is less than half Apple's size in terms of sales, but RIMM does not sell Macs or iPods. RIMM added 3.9 million handsets in that quarter...