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...part-ownership of Apple Corp., which owns the Beatles brand, as well as song royalties and his active touring career, is estimated at over $1.5 billion, and rising. "Over the years, the British courts have come closer to an equal division of assets" between divorcing couples, says Anthony Burton, a partner at solicitors Simons Muirhead & Burton in London. In this case, despite the relatively short (four-year) marriage and the fact that McCartney had accumulated most of his wealth before they wed, several factors point toward a generous award to Mills. They have two-year-old daughter Beatrice, and Mills...
Vampire Loves by Joann Sfar ought to be the break-out hit for First Second. If the filmmakers Eric Rohmer (Pauline at the Beach) and Tim Burton (The Corpse Bride) ever teamed up on a graphic novel, it might well resemble this funny take on the complex love life of a sensitive vampire ("I bite with one tooth so that it looks like a mosquito bite") and his friends. Sfar imagines a world being shared with our own, but made up of ghosts, monsters and witches who do things like rent cruise ships so they can be with their...
...Help a Friend in Distress.” The packet addressed the issues of general distress, alcoholism, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and suicide, and presented ways to identify and cope with these problems. Attendees discussed their personal experiences with these issues and offered advice to one another. Burton recommended that individuals who are trying to help friends with mental problems should express concern but avoid giving advice or placating the person. In addition to discussing general ways of coping with mental issues, attendees learned about the signs of alcoholism, including guilt about drinking, lying about or hiding drinking habits...
...says a lot of things that some people find cliché, or people thought that he was preaching to us a bit, but if you try them out they actually work,” says Penny Q. Fang ’08. Students like Ecaterina R. Burton ’08 agree. “I’ve gleaned the most benefit from keeping a gratitude journal, where every day I write down things that fill me with gratitude for being alive,” Burton writes in an e-mail. Others, like Allen A. T. Ewal...
...James Gould Cozzens revival any time soon), while writers who were published only in cheap paperbacks (Jim Thompson) are heroes. Producer Stanley Kramer was the social conscience of Hollywood; yet his films receive little attention now (and if they do, it's dismissive), while Ed Wood gets a Tim Burton hagiography starring Johnny Depp...