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...Sundance Film Festival, held every year in Park City, Utah, has seen its share of celluloid villains. But when actor Robert Redford formally kicked off this year's fest on Jan. 21, he targeted Sundance's latest enemy: Paris Hilton...
...success has been a double-edged sword. The festival is widely known and respected, and it attracts some of cinema's best and brightest every year - as well as the fans, shills and paparazzi who feast on them. At this year's festival, which lasts through Jan. 31, the feature films star actors like Ben Affleck, Elijah Wood, Jessica Alba and Dakota Fanning. Yet for every Tilda Swinton, there is a Jon Gosselin to show up and pose for pictures or grab free "swag bags" at lounges set up by retailers who hope to get their clothes, watches and products...
...Jan. 22, Wall Street pay was again in the spotlight in Washington. The House Committee on Financial Services held a hearing on executive compensation. Harvard professor Lucian Bebchuk, who recently consulted pay czar Kenneth Feinberg in setting compensation limits at bailed-out firms, said Congress should regulate and "place limits" on Wall Street pay. Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz told the panel that bank pay incentivized traders and other employees to take the excessive risks that contributed to the financial crisis. And corporate-governance expert Nell Minow asserted that Wall Street firms had done little to change...
Galluccio resigned from his seat Jan. 5 after being sentenced to one year of jail for violating his house arrest by consuming alcohol. Candidates vying for his seat must submit their nomination by March 2, and the primary will be held on April...
Miami Beach City Commissioner Jerry Libbin seems to hope so, as he declared Jan. 20 “Harry Parker Day” in the city to thank Harvard’s heavyweight head coach for bringing his (and Radcliffe’s) crews to the Ronald W. Shane Center for a winter training trip...