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...talk about the deals that went well. The best example of that is when [News Corp. CEO Rupert] Murdoch bought MySpace - and it's rumored Tom Freston lost his job [as Viacom CEO] over not buying it - everyone talked about MySpace and how smart that was. But several weeks apart from MySpace News Corp. spent even more money on an Internet game company called IGN that nobody's ever heard of since. If you only count the ones that look successful it's easy to be a genius. But unfortunately the shareholders are stuck with the unsuccessful ones as well...
...play that attracted Craig and Jackman is a deceptively modest piece: a 90-minute two-hander in which the British and Australian actors play (flawlessly) a pair of Chicago cops who recount, in alternating monologues, a harrowing chain of events that tears their lifelong friendship apart. The material is familiar to streetwise fans of Hollywood crime films and TV cop shows--the prostitutes and lowlifes, shocking violence and moral compromises faced by cops who patrol the urban jungle. But Huff's vivid, intricately layered script--a mix of straight narration, interlaced commentary and re-created scenes--lifts it far above...
Harvard carried its scoring momentum into the third period, with Everson and Moriarty coming up with goals just two minutes apart about halfway through the frame...
...card permanent-residency certificate, was asked to show up for an interview on Nov. 4. According to Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama, Fonseka had been told by the DHS official that the objective of the interview was to "use him as a source against Defense Secretary Gottabaya Rajapaksa." Apart from being a co-author of the successful campaign against the Tigers, Gottabaya Rajapaksa is also the brother of Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa. (See pictures from Sri Lanka when the Tamil Tigers were still a force...
...Nocturnes,” Ishiguro examines that dreaded moment in which people arrive at middle age and have to confront their mediocrity. Characters drift apart as they realize that they have not fulfilled their individual ambitions: the marriage between trophy wife Lindy Gardner and her fading American crooner husband unravels; the apprenticeship of a young Russian cellist under a woman who professes to be an accomplished musician dissolves; a struggling jazz musician, seeking notoriety, undergoes an unnecessary facelift and befriends Gardner while recovering from his surgery in a futile attempt to achieve celebrity...