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...Just last month, leaders of the Writers Guild issued a call to arms against the media giants. "Disney and the other companies have refused for years to adjust this outdated formula for the DVD market and now they are trying to do the same thing with the next generation of technology," said the WGA declaration. "We support those advances but not without fair compensation for the hardworking men and women who write, perform, direct, and otherwise create the very content that makes their new revenue streams possible. Rest assured, our Guilds will take all affirmative legal action within our power...
...under the assumption that it was an affiliate of the University. Shortly after gaining control of the stake, Charlesbank attempted to invoke a clause in the original purchase agreement to force Blinds to Go to buy back its shares at a price based on a previously agreed upon formula. But Blinds to Go used the formula and estimated the value of the shares to be much lower than what Charlesbank had expected to receive. That prompted the firm to sue the Canadian company, accusing it of intentionally undervaluing the holdings. Blinds to Go then accused Harvard of improperly transferring...
After reading “The Da Vinci Code,” I discovered that Brown, a former English teacher, is a creature of habit. There are no surprises—just more of the same winning formula. Replace the scientist with a stolid Harvard symbologist, the analyst with a sassy cop, and the executive branch with the Catholic Church. Then include some car chases, narrow escapes, and the requisite sexual tension—and voil?...
...trouncing Arizona. "It's vulnerable," Pirko says of Arizona. "Word of mouth might work when there's little competition, but now the shelves are overloaded, groaning with new products. He who spends is usually he who gets the space." Vultaggio is utterly unmoved. "We've got a winning formula," he says. "What's the sense of changing...
...little less than a year ago, the Harvard women’s hockey team won a pivotal playoff game at the Whittemore Center on the campus of the University of New Hampshire on its way to the NCAA Championship game. Tonight, it hopes to repeat that formula. In 2005, the Crimson advanced to the Frozen Four, where it knocked off St. Lawrence in the national semifinals before bowing to Minnesota, 4-3, in the title game. This time around, Harvard (18-12-4) travels to the Durham, N.H. arena of the top-seeded Wildcats (32-2-1) for a home...