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...Fidelity brass is trying to figure out how to keep its lead position in the industry, given the competitive landscape. In a further sign of upheaval in the fund giant, last May, Abigail Johnson - daughter of the company's founder - stepped aside from running the money-management arm of Fidelity. She also recently sold some of her voting shares of the closely-held firm, signaling to some that she may no longer be the heir apparent...
...three “Star Wars” prequels finally announced theultimate aim of his nefarious plans: “I’m hoping that, in 20 or 30 years, nobody remembers ‘Star Wars’; that it was just a blip.” Arm the message-boards, fanboys—the Dark Lord has been revealed!Well, not exactly.The 53-year-old McCallum is a relatively new addition to the Star Wars universe, but in his short tenure, he’s raised the hackles of more than a few hardcore devotees. First working...
...them "manufactured objects promoted to the dignity of objets d'art by means of the artist's choice." These avant-garde icons, complete rejections of the traditional hierarchy that put painting as the most important art form, are all on show: the snow shovel (In Advance of the Broken Arm), the urinal (Fountain), the Bicycle Wheel, the Hat Rack and the bearded reproduction of the Mona Lisa (L.H.O.O.Q., which is a racy double entendre in French). How did Duchamp choose his objects? On "visual indifference," he once said, "as well as a total absence of taste, good...
...quite that simple. Cash was 6 ft. 2 in. and held his guitar like a long rifle, with his strumming arm draped around the bottom of the body. Phoenix is 5 ft. 8 in. When music supervisor T-Bone Burnett told him his basic mastery was all right but his strumming was all wrong, it took weeks to relearn how to play. There was also the matter of singing. Phoenix has a warbling, slightly nasal voice that needed extensive training to hit Cash's rumbling lows. "He was pretty horrible when he started," says Dan John Miller, leader...
...loss was just that, that despite all the good omens, it was still a loss. A handful of unfortunate screw-ups and baffling calls from the sidelines were food for disbelief. That Harvard lost on Saturday raised serious questions, and not about O’Hagan’s arm or Dawson’s health. Wasn’t Derek Davis’ 72-yard rush on the first place of the game a little unexpected—a little surreal—to watch unfold? “We have a crash blitz called into their reverse...