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...front pages. The only story about Yahoo, however, that deserved attention was the monstrous violation of fiduciary duty that its board made when it turned down Microsoft's (MSFT) offer to buy the company. Beyond that, Yahoo is now a relatively small company with faltering profits that is no longer even important to its own industries, either media or the internet...
...numbers are not the reason that Yahoo does not matter. What matters is that it is no longer a company with even a modest voice in the media industry. The time when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer might have bought it or its search division is probably over. Ballmer is, as most good businessmen should be, ruthless beyond the imagination of the general public. He gave Yahoo's board a chance to do the right thing for its shareholders. Once Yahoo turned Ballmer down, he kept leaking comments about ongoing interest to the press. Just as Yahoo was beginning take...
...Others have proposed a separate afternoon ceremony for the technical categories (art direction, sound mixing, sound editing, etc.) and the awards for films almost nobody can see (animated, fiction and documentary shorts), thus allowing the evening to be a showcase of star actors, possibly with longer clips from their films. That's what the Grammy show has become: an all-star concert, with only 10 of the record industry's 110 awards presented on the prime-time show. Or Oscar could go the full American Idol route, with the nominated thespians in an "act-off" of big movie scenes...
...longer enough to repeat a prescribed number of prayers; you also have to do good, such as volunteer at a soup kitchen, help resettle refugees or donate to a worthy cause. Much like how many high schoolers have to fulfill a community-service requirement, Catholics are being urged to become do-gooders. "The church's teaching has evolved," Walsh says. "Part of indulgences is not just saying special prayers, but also doing good works." (See pictures of spiritual healing around the world...
...China, that new attitude of engagement has been cautiously welcomed. "For many years the U.S. has been accustomed to delivering its demands to China, and this situation should change," the popular nationalist tabloid Global Times put it on the morning of Clinton's arrival. "The U.S. can no longer control China, moreover make more demands...