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...There were a few genuine clunkers. Citigroup profit fell 3% not counting one-time gains (still, it raised its dividend 11%), and Intel fell way short of its own estimates offered just a month earlier (rival AMD posted spectacular results). On Monday, Bank of America was the latest blue chip to disappoint. Overall, though, S&P 500 companies so far have logged an average gain of 13.7% in earnings per share, according to Thomson Financial. There's a term for that level of profitability. It's called blowing the doors off. And Thomson forecasts double-digit earnings growth straight through...
...thinks the attitude within the project will be contagious for the whole company. "Piquette helps institutionalize innovation," Ford says. For the most part it exists virtually, through e-mailed sketches, proposals and blue-sky ideas. A team of designers, engineers and manufacturing gurus is brainstorming everything from how to make a business plan to how production should be organized to how to employ biodegradable materials. The ultimate goal: a recycled, reusable...
Hoop Dreams. Crumb. Michael Moore's Roger & Me. Errol Morris' The Thin Blue Line. Michael Apted's 7 Up series. These are some of the finest documentary features in recent decades, and they share one distinction: none received an Oscar, or even a nomination, for Best Documentary. An outcry over the exclusion of films like these and charges of cronyism within the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' selection committee led to rules changes in 2001. So this year's list will be a lot sharper...
...COAT On a brief vacation from the rock band Rilo Kiley, Lewis takes exuberant steps in lots of musical directions. From the gospel rhythm and secular doubt of The Big Guns ("I've won hundreds at the track but I'm not betting on the afterlife") to the blue-eyed soul of You Are What You Love, each song has a sense of narrative motion, largely because Lewis knows which moments call for delicacy and which demand emotive belting. She can also interpret others' songs, as proved when she nips Handle with Care from the mouths of the Traveling Wilburys...
Schamus disputes that a chasm exists between big cities and God's country. "This whole red-state-- blue-state thing is absurd," he says. "The film has performed amazingly in Little Rock, Birmingham and Fort Worth, Texas. The fact is, Americans are Americans. There may be places where their politics in the aggregate tilt one way or the other, but do you cross a state boundary and turn into some other kind of animal? No. Americans talk to each other. Americans are listening to each other. And Brokeback is proving...