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...STRINGER BELL goes legit in America's No. 1 film...
...increasingly likely that Nortel Networks Corp., the biggest maker of telephone equipment on the continent, will emerge from bankruptcy stripped of many of its most valuable assets along with its ambitions to be a world beater. Meanwhile, Montreal-based BCE Inc., parent of the country's biggest telco, Bell Canada, has continued its slide since a record $42.1 billion deal to privatize the company was abruptly killed in the final weeks...
...back some of the old luster to its valuation, analysts say, it must turn back advances made by cable operators and invest billions of dollars in network upgrades. Nowhere is this more urgent than in the province of Quebec, where Videotron Ltd. has coaxed 850,000 customers away from Bell Canada since launching its cable phone service four years ago. That figure is expected to top 1 million in 2009, driven in part by Videotron's ability to attract subscribers to a discounted triple-play bundle that combines voice, cable and high-speed Internet. "We're prepared to fight...
...Though bell-bottoms and daisy chains remain relics of the ’60s, student activism at Harvard is anything but history. SLAM, the Student Labor Action Movement, has become increasingly vocal in the past few months. Harvard students are likely to encounter SLAM’s campaign against layoffs on an average stroll through the yard—perhaps in the form of student activists holding signs, waving banners, or sporting screen-printed t-shirts branded with SLAM’s polemical slogan, “Greed is the New Crimson.” As the school year draws...
Things rarely come in groups of six. Sextuplets (by birth or in a boy band) are uncommon and overwhelming, while musical arrangements are more likely to be written for a quartet or a quintet. Because of this, if the word sestet rings a bell, it is likely that the cognizance dates back to your high school unit on poetry. The sestet is commonly known as the last 6 lines of a sonnet, usually demarcating a turn in thought. And though a sestet can be any six-lined stanza or poem, with “Sestets,” the latest...