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...Cinema, and a current market value of $85 billion, Icahn has chosen his biggest mark yet. Time Warner has been struggling since the disastrous merger in 2000 with AOL, which sent the company's share price plummeting. An Icahn-led group picked up 2.6% of the company, and "a boatload of hedge funds and other short-term players are sitting in the stock," said Patrick McGurn, special counsel at Institutional Shareholder Services, which advises on proxy fights. Yet so far, long-term investors aren't biting. Many credit Parsons for having already made progress in getting Time Warner's house...
...even more serious investigation began in July, when three bodies clad in designer jeans were found floating in the Miami River. Informants telephoned the U.S. Customs Service's drug hotline to report that the trio was part of a group of six men guarding a boatload of 300 to 400 kilos of cocaine. When approached by a menacing gang of eight to twelve men wearing what appeared to be Miami police uniforms, all six dopers went over the side. Halfevidently drowned; the other three have not been found. The blue uniformed men, meanwhile, fled with the cocaine...
...competition, thus ineligible for a palm of any color. Cool is the temperature of the standard Cannes film. When a movie forthrightly engages the emotions - as Marco Tullio Giordana's Once You're Born superbly did in its story of a boy lost at sea with a boatload of illegal immigrants - the critical consensus can be loud and derisive. (Literally: the film was booed.) For the fun and frissons that are supposed to be the movies' birthright you had to go back outside, to the lavish parties picturemakers throw for themselves. At one of these was Jackie Chan, who unabashedly...
...With injuries and poor play and a boatload of other things, we’re forced into using different combinations at times,” he said. “We want to keep them on their feet, give ’em a few new looks. But I don’t know as of yet if we’re going to make any drastic changes. That’s for sure...
...Local lore has it that a Surat entrepreneur, returning with a boatload of diamond cutters from East Africa, set up the city's polishing industry in 1901. Business picked up in the 1970s, when India began cutting low-quality gemstones and exporting them to the U.S. Although Bombay is the commercial center of India's diamond business, its militant labor unions have increasingly driven the polishers to Surat, where wages for diamond cutters are lower, at $2,500-$3,500 a year, and workers are more pliable. In the past, Surat's diamond industry has been a hot spot...