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This trip from private equity to public conglomerate and back wasn't pointless. According to company calculations, if you count every spinoff and asset sale--plus a $2.8 billion shareholder lawsuit payout in the wake of the CUC mess--a dollar invested in HFS when it went public in 1992 would be worth more than $14 now--a 22% annual return, or more than double the performance of the S&P 500. Which means Silverman is probably worth listening to on one of the great questions of our day: Is it better for a company to be traded...
...renovate the frayed campus gallery where the Stieglitz Collection has languished but also pump millions of dollars into Fisk's general budget. Why not sell off just a bit of that famous art? But when the school moved to bring Radiator Building to market, it triggered what became a lawsuit by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, N.M., which moved to block the sale on the grounds that it violated the terms of the painter's bequest. In February the museum offered Fisk a deal. It could sell Radiator Building, but only to the museum...
...know Kevin Costner had a band? Probably not. That's why Costner is suing his music promoter for, well, nonpromotion. "The lawsuit should have profound implications ... leaving promoters leery of ever taking on another [celebrity band]," notes blogsite DEFAMER, "lest Richard Gere and the Dolly Llamas sue them." SCORE...
...final nail in the coffin and buries the film alive. Conway is eventually apprehended, but rather than end the misery at this point, the final scenes harp tritely on questions of identity and authenticity. Conway is placed in an asylum full of other Kubrick impersonators, fends off a lawsuit with claims of insanity, becomes an anonymous celebrity in the psychiatric world, and scores an ironic admission to a celebrity rehab clinic. As the credits roll, it’s hard not to feel that you, too, were duped. —Staff writer Jeremy S. Singer-Vine can be reached...
...five years. Further, the gag order in the plea bargain suggests that the U.S. government is more concerned about what Hicks will say than what he will actually do following his release. Not only is Hicks forbidden from speaking to the press for a year and from filing any lawsuit against America or American officials, but he was required to retract his detailed accusations of torture. While Hicks’ circumstances themselves are not proof of any misconduct by the U.S. government, the implications are disconcerting. Particularly given the scrutiny over human rights abuses that the Guantánamo prison...