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Companies that want to get bigger or round out their portfolios of businesses have probably been on the phone with their investment bankers in the last two weeks. It may be the first time that some bankers have gotten a client call in a year. There is a rush to look at targets now, because if the market moves up another 10% or 15%, a lot of companies that were cheap will get expensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Renaissance for Big Acquisitions | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...theater, advocating direct-to-DVD strategies or premieres on such premium cable networks as HBO. But many filmmakers say the disadvantage of those distribution plans is that they fail to generate the press and word of mouth that accompany even a limited theatrical release. "I think it's gotten to the point where distribution companies are organizing theatrical screenings solely to generate reviews," Swanberg says. "It creates a scenario where studios are basically paying for these reviews, taking a huge loss on one or two weeks of poorly marketed screenings just to get the New York Times and Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Film Festival Comes to Your Living Room | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...Princeton, New Jersey. My impression is that Brown and Dartmouth also have a lot more fun just because it’s kind of the culture they’ve got. Harvard has a particular history of clamping down on anything resembling fun. But it’s gotten a lot better. 6.FM: You were a biology concentrator at Harvard. What was your love life like?AB: My love life as a Harvard student was pretty much non-existent. This is the problem with campuses like Harvard and other very high-achieving, high-strung campuses—it?...

Author: By Gulus Emre, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Alex Benzer ’93 | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...Speaking with Pelley from the Federal Reserve and his hometown of Dillon, South Carolina, Bernanke said that if markets can be stabilized he expects the recession to come to an end "probably this year." And the possibility of the nation sinking into a second depression? "I think we've gotten past that," he said. Bernanke remains dedicated to the task of recovery, but says that the bailing out of insurance giant AIG still "makes him the angriest and gives him the most angst" because of the poor choices the company has made at the taxpayer's expense. (See pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

...defuse the situation and urged their followers to head back to the University of Nairobi campus for a prayer session. "The direction they are now taking is not the direction we wanted," said Walter Otieno, 28, a Strathmore University student and one of the protest's leaders, who had gotten permission from Prime Minister Raila Odinga for the march to go ahead. "Our whole point was to get the masses to know that injustice happened and that someone has been killed," said student Collins Chikezie, 23. "We want Nairobi to feel the effects. If the street is blocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya: Protesting Politics As Usual | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

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