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...When Dear John starts, Channing Tatum looks like the likely Ali since he's flat on his back in a soldier's uniform, his blood seeping into a mud puddle. Tatum is John Tyree, a special-forces soldier madly in love with chaste, do-gooder college student Savannah (Amanda Seyfried), whom he met during a two-week leave in the spring of 2001. We go to flashbacks, and as John enfolds Savannah in his big, beautiful arms, with Sept. 11 hovering like a hurricane over the South Carolina beaches, you take bets on whether that mud puddle was in Afghanistan...
...selection during the holiday season, it had a firm grasp of the consumers' many needs. Cash-strapped shoppers flocked to the site for its low prices, ready-to-ship inventory, shrewd consumer product reviews, low shipping fees and the holiday season's trendiest gadget, the Kindle. It refused to back down from pricing wars with Walmart and Target over books, and made a big push into electronics to tap the void left by the demise of Circuit City and Tweeter over the past year. (See nine e-readers to gawk...
...Analysts worry that higher e-book pricing could eat into demand for Amazon's Kindle. "They're trying to build the iTunes for books with their Kindle, so they're particularly sensitive about market share for books," says Sebastian. (See the 25 best back-to-school gadgets...
...Back in 2006, Lawrence McDonald, a former Lehman Brothers bond trader, remembers, he asked an intern what he was doing during the winter break at the now bankrupt investment bank. The intern, who was a junior in college, said he was trading derivatives for the firm. Surprised, McDonald asked the intern the size of his pad - Wall Street-speak for how much of the firm's money he was able to trade - figuring it couldn't be much. The intern's response: $150 million...
Colin A. Rees '12, who advocated over the House list for the use of "ninja tactics" against non-resident intruders, said that he plans to bring the chair back by at least the halfway point of the semester...