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...investors livid last year by running up a $100 million tab in hiring and firing Michael Ovitz. More recently the stock has lagged the market, dogged by boycotts by religious groups protesting everything from racy movies to personnel policies and, potentially far worse for shareholders, by concerns that the formula for the Mouse's wholesome animated films has grown stale. Never mind that Disney shares, including dividends, have risen an average of 15.6% annually for the past 10 years, vs. 14.3% for Standard & Poor's 500. The company has a p.r. problem...
Because Mouse on Mars offers so little emotional or stylistic variety, Autoditacker starts to seem formulaic after a couple spins. Their formula, though, is intoxicatingly musical and at times boldly innovative
Without making a clear departure from Strings, they've juggled the parts of the formula just right. They've still trying to slow it down a little, but the slow songs mostly eschew gimmickry outside the emotional punch of McCaughan's three-note voice going from "sing" to "scream." Maybe his solo records as Portastatic sharpened his song writing. "Marquee" and "Under Our Feet" are touching, and the closing joke ("Martinis On The Roof") is unusually dignified, as if Mac doesn't need indignance as badly as he once...
Last year, Harvard fell from its coveted top stop to No.3 in U.S. News and World Report's annual college ranking, partly because the magazine factored in class sizes in its formula for ranking schools...
When asked how the registrar's office defines "mostly," he said that "there's not a formula" and that each case is usually evaluated by "historical precedent...