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...looks far worse for Toronto-based Nortel Networks, a key supplier to North American telcos and once the brightest light in the Canadian economy. It was worth $250 billion, or about 35% of the total market capitalization of the Toronto Stock Exchange, before it flamed out in the post-dotcom bust. Earlier this year, Nortel, a company with $10.4 billion in annual revenues that has spent nearly a decade mired in accounting scandals and feckless attempts to reinvent itself, initiated bankruptcy proceedings. It will probably sell its most prized assets to chief rivals, including Nokia Siemens Networks and Avaya...
...Picasso who first showed him the way. In the central panel of one of Bacon's works from the 1970s, Triptych--In Memory of George Dyer, a shadowy man stands near the landing of a darkened stairwell, turning a tiny key in a lock. That key is borrowed from an odd creature doing the same in several of Picasso's seaside pictures from the late 1920s, when he was flirting with Surrealism. Those elastic Picassos, with their biomorphic figures that are part human, part dirigible, part swollen breast or phallus, turned a key in Bacon. They showed...
...easy choice, particularly for companies in layoff mode. But executives believe the arts are a good investment, a relatively inexpensive brand polisher, as well as a community-development engine and a key in promoting a region as a good place to live and do business. So sponsorships, cash gifts, in-kind service offerings and other donations are still being given. "Companies need to market themselves ... so there's always opportunity out there," says Gail Bower, a sponsorship and marketing consultant in Philadelphia...
With his comment that "I learned a lot of calculus, which hasn't proved that useful in my career," Isaacson gets at a key reason our schools aren't succeeding. The question isn't whether we have adequate standards; it's whether the curriculum prepares our students to be successful. What are the skills our young people need to be successful in today's society? Don't they need to know how to communicate, cooperate and problem-solve? Shouldn't they understand what it means to be punctual, responsible, committed and courteous? Shouldn't they have a thorough understanding...
...nothing against Modi," and that none of the investigations conducted by the Gujarati government had cited him. Jaitley also hinted at a conspiracy behind the timing of the court ruling, claiming that in the past, various reports targeting the BJP have been released at critical phases of elections. (Several key states have yet to vote.) Many observers point out, however, that most of these types of decisions actually came out in the BJP's favor. If the past is any indicator, Modi and the BJP may yet use this latest judicial blow to their advantage by painting Modi...