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...that was his pixie-dust era. ABC, which Eisner bought for $19 billion in 1996, swung from earning $1 billion in operating income in 2000 to losing $36 million last year. Eisner blew at least $1.6 billion on Internet ventures, including the Go.com portal, and in 2001 he paid $5.2 billion for the Fox Family Channel (considered a high sum), which was renamed ABC Family and proceeded to slump in the ratings. None of this has been lost on investors: Disney stock wobbles at around $22 a share, half the heights it reached...
...first new music I had been excited by in a really long time,” says Subrin. “It just blew my mind to see the intersection of the visual artist with a really strong feminist experimental sound...
...across the narrow street from her husband's office to pick up milk for his coffee. She paused to chat with the shop owner as a green catering van sped up the narrow street, smashed into tall wrought-iron gates at the corner of the walled consulate compound and blew...
...longer. About 3 a.m. on Saturday Nov. 15, the school's brand-new building - due to open Jan. 5 - went up in flames. There are no suspects. Police believe the fire was likely started at two separate points. The blaze licked 8 m into the air, the searing heat blew out windows and warped girders. At least 60 firemen managed to save the old school building next door, but from the synagogue where the boys still gather every morning, they now look out over 3,000 sq m of charred debris. "We were in a very calm place here...
...local resentment of coalition forces will only grow. As a leaked report from the CIA station chief in Baghdad details, the number, intensity and organizational sophistication of attacks on coalition forces are all on the increase. Last week 19 Italians and 13 Iraqis were killed when a car bomb blew up an Italian base in Nasiriyah. Seven Americans were killed in six attacks, and at least another 17 died when two U.S. helicopters crashed in midair as one apparently dodged shooting from the ground...