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Most of the successful movies this year have been franchise or horror films, not star-driven. As someone heading a studio, someone who's a director and someone who works with these people, do you think we're in the first nonstar era of Hollywood...
...time to blow the dust off the curtains at Hearst!" she announced at a management conference. And she did. Black launched O: The Oprah Magazine in 2000, which has generated $1.3billion in ad revenue since then and all but invented a new category, the celebrity-driven lifestyle and self-help magazine...
Everyone around Romney had assumed this achievement would be a centerpiece of his presidential campaign, showcasing the data-driven, goal-oriented, utterly pragmatic side of Romney. But that side of him has emerged only rarely on the 2008 trail. Instead, he rarely discusses the details of his Massachusetts plan and certainly doesn't tout his partnership with Kennedy. As a presidential candidate, he cautiously adheres to by-the-book Republican dogma of giving individual states leeway in the form of tax breaks to design their own reforms...
...connect her anti-pornography position to the belief that “women are always coerced into sex.” The argument is not that women cannot be trusted to give consent, but rather that mere consent does not necessarily make an arrangement just, especially when assent is driven by economic desperation. I imagine that The Crimson writers would see injustice in the conditions of third world sweatshops, where laborers “voluntarily” work 16 hour days in hazardous working environments. It is curious, then, that they are so uncritical of the degrading character...
...course, agree. "They could have at least been more patient," says Huang Youfeng, waiting in line to fuel his sedan at a Beijing gas station Thursday. "Start the increase at 0.2 renminbi [2.5 cents] per liter - it would have been more acceptable." The irony is that Chinese demand has driven much of the nearly fourfold increase in oil prices since 2000. The country is now the world's second largest consumer of oil products, and consumption has grown 8.7% annually for the past five years. That compares with only 1.5% in the rest of the world...