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Microsoft (MSFT) just released earnings that were mediocre but not any worse than was expected. It said that the balance of the calendar year would not be much better. In stating that, it is taking a position that has been common among most big companies releasing earnings. Write off 2009. Wait until next year...
...said in an interview. “The people on the streets, the soccer teams… ultimately the way these guys operate is the way it is in Mexico.” The city bears many wonders for them—free SUVs and beautiful supermodel girlfriends, among them—but it also brings a host of dangers: corruption, luxury, vices, and unsavory loan sharks. And from the sprawling metropolis of Mexico City to the rural banana-farming communities of the state of Oaxaca, the movie depicts Mexico in a variety of contrasting locales. One great challenge...
...Wang adds that although both Chen and Zhang later became celebrity directors on their own—Zhang directed “Raise the Red Lantern” and “House of Flying Daggers,” among others—“Yellow Earth” holds a special place in Chinese cinematic and cultural history. “They never recaptured the magic and power of this mid-1980s collaboration,” he says...
...negotiations, possibly to demand the release of two Iranian nationals taken by U.S. forces in Irbil in 2007. Alternatively, Saberi may be a victim of Iran’s judiciary hardliner’s backlash against the clear signals of an increasingly positive attitude toward a US-Iran rapprochement among various power factions in Tehran...
...catalogued in HOLLIS and VIA (Visual Information Access) for the first time. Japanese albums containing largely hand-colored albumen prints, photographs of Renaissance and Baroque architecture and sculpture, records of Nicaragua before and after the 1979 revolution, and photographs documenting a 1922 road trip from Pakistan to Afghanistan are among the objects that will now be made available on HOLLIS. While the benefits of cataloguing will be enjoyed by generations of future Harvard students, the Littauer location is only temporary. Pending approval, the Fine Arts Library is likely to move into the Sackler building sometime around 2017. Gallery space...