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...Sunshine-Coast resort asked if the Wests could screen "something nostalgic" for a coach load of travel agents. They pulled out Son of the Sheik-and had an instant hit. Three months later the theater went all-silent, and the organ (whose pipes "speak" through a vent from a side room) has hardly had a quiet moment since. As well as the Thursday-night show, West runs an annual silent-film festival and puts on extra screenings by request-earlier today, for a group of New Zealand golfers whose game was rained...
...Next to the highway, a dozen station hands and visitors are helping to load a double-decker, three-carriage road train; 1,200 hooves are bound for nearby Alice Downs and then Wyndham for shipping. As ringers crack whips, three women are prodding mickeys (young bulls) through a series of pens; red dust and deep-voiced murmurs of "Get on" and "Go" fill the air. Burton, fag in hand, strides about. The mickeys are the most economical stock; there's little price premium in fattening them up. "The whole operation is about turning grass into T-bones," he says...
...wrong - it was very easy for me to preview and download a new Tom Petty song right over the air, and even move it to the removable MicroSD card. However, when I went to install the V Cast Music software on my PC, in order to load songs to the phone, the software refused to install. It turns out I had Windows Media Player 11, but the V Cast Music software can only run on Windows Media Player 10. I was miffed, in part because a newer Windows Media Player should be as compatible as its predecessor, and in part...
Private-equity firms pumped up with vast amounts of money are snatching public companies in an unprecedented buyout wave. In an updated, renamed version of the leveraged buyout, or LBO, private-equity firms acquire undervalued companies, load them with debt, overhaul operations and then return them to the stock exchanges whence they came in ballyhooed IPOs--collecting fees at every turn. Fever pitch officially took hold last week when hospital chain HCA was taken private by its management, founder and three buyout firms in a record deal worth more than $30 billion...
...Preparedness Pays Off Re "Sharing the Load" [July 10], on the progress made in providing assistance to Africa since last year's G-8 summit: When large populations are brought to the brink of crisis, international aid interventions are hugely expensive and logistically complicated. The solution is to give people the ability to be resilient in the event of natural disasters or armed conflicts. Small, steady cash transfers enable poor families to eat better and invest in equipment that will help them be more productive. Run entirely by local staff and villagers, the low volume of funds involved reduces...