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...conveniently categorized asset sales, share buy-backs and adjustments to the projections of pension-fund earnings and long-term services contracts. And investors, led by those same market-making investment firms that Congress is penciling in for its spring hearings season, have turned up the heat on current CEO Jeff Palmisano. IBM is down 20 percent on the year, and fell nearly $4 Tuesday, bringing both the Dow and the techs down with it. (The latest kick was a New York Times report Friday that fourth-quarter revenues met expectations only from a one-time $300 million asset sale...
...their native Australia, the Wiggles are more popular than Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman combined. Anthony Field, Jeff Fatt, Greg Page and Murray Cook are huge stars, millionaires and marketing Midases. Now they have American ankle biters in their sights. They have sold more than 1.5 million videos and CDs in the U.S., and their newest release, Wiggly, Wiggly World, was Amazon.com's best-selling family video even before it was out. The Disney Channel has started playing their songs between shows every morning. And their second U.S. tour begins next week...
...Captain Feathersword the Friendly Pirate) oafish. The way Fatt, 48, keeps falling asleep is just annoying. But Field attributes the group's success to its embrace of toddler notions of entertainment. "The language is very simple," he says. "The songs are unapologetically repetitive. Kids love to shout, 'Wake up, Jeff!' It empowers them...
...reshape the world to fit their needs. "If they think of retirement at all, they think of it as the next phase in their lives rather than stopping." Though My Generation editor in chief Betsy Carter, 56, says the magazine has no formula, most covers feature graying celebrities like Jeff Bridges, 51, and Sissy Spacek, 52. September's issue offered suggestions on how to tell your kids not to take the drugs you did yourself. December's looked at once violent Weather Underground members who came out of hiding in the 1980s to lead middle-class lives...
Poetry slams and jams at the Lizard Lounge. Sunday night features a poetry jam hosted by the Jeff Robinson Trio. 1667 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, between Harvard Square and Porter Square. (617) 547-0759. 21-plus. Open nightly 9pm-2am. Cover varies...