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...Microsoft (MSFT), the most shorted large tech company traded on any U.S. exchange, is a nearly ideal way to bet against software. It has dominant global market share in PC, server, and enterprise products used by large companies and governments. Microsoft is no longer considered a growth stock by Wall St., but it remains one of the most impressive corporate cash flow machines in the world. Microsoft's ongoing battle with Google (GOOG) over search and desktop software keeps it in the headlines regularly, and its quest to get control of Yahoo!'s (YHOO) search engine operation has gone...
Much of Kandinsky's early work drew on the folk art he encountered in Germany and in Russia. The works depict an ideal premodern Russia full of riders, onion domes and walled towns. But even in these first paintings, bright colors were used for effect, not naturalism - trees could be red, hills and horses blue. Pure color would become the central focus of his best works, a focus he pondered in his 1911 manifesto of abstraction, Concerning the Spiritual in Art. Art, he wrote in the book, comes from within, from "inner necessity," and colors and shapes speak to people...
...times knocked everyone a little out of rhythm, but the conditions on Saturday and Sunday posed no problems for the Crimson. “The conditions were perfect,” Pollak said. “The first day was a little unlucky with the late tee times. Ideal golfing weather.” Shuman led the Crimson at +4, good enough for a share of eighth place overall. After shooting a flat par in the first day’s round of play, Shuman dropped slightly in Round 2, shooting a 73, and then slipped further with...
...capped off the weekend and the 2009 campaign on a high note. Although seventh may not be ideal, there’s always next season...
...Story”) and loosely based on Michael Chabon’s debut 1988 novel of the same name, this mythic summer is distilled into 80 minutes of saccharine images and angsty declamations. Coming of age in Thurber’s colorful, melodramatic Pittsburgh is more of an unattainable ideal than an actual transformation of moral fiber. While they do their best to push the boundaries of their young existence, Thurber’s formulaic characters don’t have much to grow out of.Art Bechstein (Jon Foster) comes to his fabled summer a little late. Fresh-faced, clean...