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...Only a month ago, investor Sam Zell acquired effective control of the Tribune company - owner of such venerable papers as the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune - for not much more than the value of the company's landmark headquarters. After that debacle, Murdoch's cash-on-the-barrel offer of roughly $25 above the Dow Jones share price seemed to spell the end of a nightmare...
...North Korea another point of contention between the two sides - Japan is skeptical of North Korea's intentions - Abe will need to find a positive theme to accentuate. His best bet may be Tokyo's newest foreign policy priority: climate change. On Tuesday, Japan and the U.S. signed a landmark pact that calls for cooperative development on clean coal technology and nuclear power, including Japanese help for the first new atomic power plant in the U.S. in 30 years. Japanese media are also reporting that Abe and President George W. Bush will set a goal to cut half the world...
Realogy's passage into private ownership was nonetheless a landmark--because it marked the end of chief executive Henry Silverman's career as boss of a publicly traded corporation. Silverman, 66, is no household name, but he may be one of the iconic figures of modern American capitalism. Either that or "the Zelig of the corporate world," as he once called himself, evoking Woody Allen's cipher of a character who shows up at major historical moments...
...Mary Tyler Moore Show,” Asner has earned seven Emmys, more than any other male actor. Produced by L.A. Theatre Works under the direction of Susan Albert Loewenberg, “Monkey Trial” is adapted from the transcripts of the landmark 1925 Scopes Trial which challenged a law that prohibited the teaching of the theory of evolution in Tennessee schools. Called the “trial of the century,” the case put three-time presidential candidate Bryan up against the pro-evolution politician Clarence Darrow (played by John de Lancie). The play...
When asked about Charbonneau’s criticism, Barman cited similarities between Charbonneau’s landmark findings and his own. “David used the exact same method, exact same instrument, exact same telescope, the exact same planet, and the exact same uncertainty in measurements to discover the existence of extrasolar planets,” he said. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...