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...Fake Watch If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Fed up with losing revenue and market share to China's ubiquitous DVD pirates, Warner Home Video last week announced that it is setting up a mainland video distribution network with a local partner?a first for any foreign studio?and that it is pricing its discs to compete with local fake copies. The studio (which, like TIME, is owned by Time Warner) is gambling that people will be willing to pay about $3 apiece for authentic DVDs of Warner hits like Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. With...
...dunking continued shortly after the break, as junior center Brian Cusworth got acquainted with the rim. Cusworth fed senior guard Kevin Rogus, who took a couple of dribbles before being collapsed upon by the Yale defense. Rogus hit Cusworth with a jump pass, and the 7’0 center took a step toward the basket and threw down a one-handed...
...media by pointing out that reporters from TV network cbs had been fired in the U.S., too. The accusation - no American reporters have been fired by the White House - confused Bush and reinforced the Administration view that Putin sometimes acts based on urban myths about the U.S. fed to him by ill-informed aides...
...during the leaders' joint press conference, one of the questioners Putin called on asked Bush about the very same firings, a coincidence the White House assumed had been orchestrated. The odd episode reinforced the Administration's view that Putin's impressions of America are often based on urban myths fed to him by ill-informed aides. (At a past summit, according to Administration aides, Putin asked Bush whether it was true that chicken producers split their production into plants that serve the U.S. and lower-quality ones that process substandard chicken for Russia.) U.S. aides say that to help fight...
...follow. But the current pattern runs counter to that. "It's surprising," says analyst Greg McBride of bankrate.com The average rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is now 5.81%, according to HSH Associates, while the average one-year ARM is 4.32%. And the gap is narrowing. Even Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan termed it a "conundrum" in a recent report...