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...Apple (AAPL) will not lay people off because Steve Jobs would have to admit he had made a bad decision and that the company would not be appear to be perfect. This is, of course, only part of reason jobs at Apple are safe. The company has $24 billion in cash and securities and adds to that every quarter. Apple refuses to make acquisitions, preferring to create and market its own products. M&A deals often mean personnel cuts. Because Apple's success is based on creating new products, improving old ones and aggressive marketing, it will need...
...wisher with a fractional recalibration of body language that suggests a wordless surge of elated surprise on her part: Oh, it's you! You're the one I've been most hoping to see, and how wonderful that we share that secret knowledge! To achieve this effect, Winslet must appear, at every minute, to be not only the most interesting person in the room but also the most interested. This is not easy, and she does it very well. People walk away feeling glowy, sated and privileged. She has made them feel that way, and not out of actressy affectation...
...reimbursement procedures. One proposal would have Medicare Advantage providers compete for government contracts for the first time, a move projected to save $130 billion over 10 years. Another would be to stop paying for individual procedures and instead pay one lump sum for an entire treatment. Savings would not appear immediately, but over 20 years, they could total in the hundreds of billions of dollars...
...5.FM: Your interests lie in the area of nineteenth-century British literature and culture. Be honest—were we dirtier then or now? MBK: We would be shocked by each other. From a Victorian middle class perspective, twenty-first century women look like mannish prostitutes and men would appear vulgar and wimpy. On the other hand, we would be pretty shocked and disturbed by the amount of sexual violence and coercion that was a fact in the nineteenth century. We’d feel like prudes in each other’s company. 6. FM: Which is steamier: Penthouse...
...curled white wig jerks his head, filling the air with dust as he moves. Bubbles spontaneously appear onstage, and the 14 ballet dancers begin to play with them; a woman pops the one in front of her, another tries to gather them in her arms. In “Black and White,” the U.S. premiere of five ballets choreographed by Jirí Kylián between 1986 and 1991, decorum is literally cast off and left excavated on the stage like a mask behind which no face appears. Variations of an elaborate, rigid 18th century dress appear...