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...that Man on Wire - the critically acclaimed documentary about Frenchman Philip Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers - had actually nabbed the BAFTA. The film's director James Marsh was so unprepared that when he hopped onto the stage, with a dazed look on his face, host Jonathan Ross had to pull him aside and suggest he tuck his shirt in before taking to the podium...
...spring, when Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar got pregnant with their 18th child, they announced it on the Today show, and their reality-TV show launched that fall. When Nadya Suleman, 33, gave birth to octuplets on Jan. 26, she got revulsion, ridicule and death threats. A talk-radio host who called her a freak said his listeners were prepared to boycott any company that helped out mother or babies. Jimmy Kimmel declared that "golden retrievers do not have that many kids...
...emphasized the enormous impact that the Harvard NAACP could have on the larger Boston and Cambridge areas. “We have made progress, but our communities are still plagued by dilapidated schools with teachers who do not care, jobs that do not pay enough and a host of other issues,” Lee said. “There is still work to be done, but we must get up and do it.” With performances by the Kuumba Brothers and Sisters, the banquet also focused on striking a “healthy balance between...
...business has entered into another destructive phase of the business cycle. Huge investments in new capacity in 2007 have created an oversupply of chips, while the global economic slowdown is drastically weakening demand for the slivers of silicon that go into computers, mobile phones, portable music players and a host of other consumer electronics products. The result has been plummeting prices. According to a price index compiled by research firm iSuppli, DRAM prices have plunged 48% in the past six months. That is good news for consumers - cheaper DRAMs mean electronics makers can pack more memory into their gadgets...
...With the high court's blessing, SEBI may now be able to look into possible insider-trading violations revolving around the sale of 3,600,000 shares of Satyam stock in the months before the fraud came to light, as well as embezzlement and a host of other possible transgressions. According to reports in Indian newspapers, investigators for the Andhra Pradesh Crime Investigation Division have discovered Satyam funds were diverted into Maytas Properties and Maytas Infrastructure, property companies owned by the Raju family. Two senior partners of Satyam's auditors, Price Waterhouse, S. Gopalakrishnan and Srinivas Taluri, have also been...