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...Coens' crime caper is sharp and smart and was certainly worthy of a top slot. Gray's cop drama rarely reached the emotional boiling point, but the Tarantino and Fincher films, if not nearly the best of the directors' work, paraded the filmmaking brio, the narrative twists and drive, that mark solid updates of the classic Hollywood style. That the jurors ignored every member of this quartet, while laying hands on Van Sant's very minor indie effort, could possibly suggest an anti-Hollywood agenda. Major U.S. studios may take the hint, and be more reluctant to submit films...
...that the main area of expansion in the proposed bill would be for guest workers outside agriculture--in the service sector, in construction, in factories. By law, any guest-worker position has to be offered to Americans first, but the fear is that a flood of guest workers would drive down salaries in those industries, as they already have in farming...
...teachers and go on to earn solid middle-manager salaries. But business fortunes are built, like Pick-a-Pair victories, on risk, a little luck and pricing assets: calculating, assessing value and never overbidding. (And against a ticking clock.) People who do that are the ones who amass billions, drive the economy and bankroll politicians. They don't need to know when the Magna Carta was signed; they hire the guy who does...
...Ticketmaster's biggest customers became, in effect, its biggest competitor. Major League Baseball bought Tickets.com pumping money into the fledgling site, which is now the second largest ticketing retailer, selling about $1 billion worth annually. "Given the importance of online ticketing, we thought we should drive the car from the front seat rather than the back," says Bob Bowman, CEO of MLB.com The league doesn't dictate how teams sell their tickets. That business, for now, is divided fairly evenly among Ticketmaster, Tickets.com and Paciolan, a ticketing software firm based in Irvine, Calif. But if the league consolidates its ticketing...
...arms shot heard 'round the blogosphere: John McCain popping off on a conference call about Mitt Romney's opposition to the current immigration bill. "Maybe I should wait a couple weeks and see if it changes," the Senator said. "Maybe he can get out his small varmint gun and drive those Guatemalans off his yard...