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...this movie? I thought it was going to be released in France and Bangladesh. That was my sense of it. I was keeping my fingers crossed and hoping we would find a U.S. distributor, and we did. But if you're asking me if I predicting nine Academy Award nominations - I didn't predict...
Critics contend that without the pay czar's oversight, Citi will again award outsize pay packages to its top executives. In 2008, despite steep losses at the bank, Citi reportedly paid energy trader Andy Hall $100 million. Indeed, a number of top Citi officials already seem to be cashing in on the bank's loosened pay restrictions. Earlier in the week, Citi, which lost $1.6 billion in 2009, disclosed that it had paid John Havens, widely seen as the bank's No. 2 executive, nearly $10 million in compensation for his work last year. That topped even the salary...
...Rolling Stones to switch over from rival record company EMI two years ago. And once he's wooed acts, he can keep them on board - no small achievement in an industry not short of ego. When he was honored at London's Grosvenor Hotel with a Music Industry Trust Award in November 2008, he was feted by some of the biggest names in the business. Bono and the rest of U2 presented the award, Take That performed, and Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, the male half of ABBA, tried to outbid British rock band Snow Patrol in the fundraising auction...
Jeremy Lin averaged 17 points and six assists in the last two home games of his career, earning the Harvard co-captain Ivy Player of the Week. The league’s Rookie of the Week award went to teammate Brandyn Curry, who averaged 17.5 points and five assists over two nights...
Josh Ozersky is a James Beard Award-winning food writer and the author of The Hamburger: A History. You can listen to his weekly show at the Heritage Radio Network and read his column on home cooking on Rachael Ray's website. He is currently at work on a biography of Colonel Sanders...