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...been a troubled business. Content has never been king. The reality is that, wonderful as it is, the value of it doesn't go to the shareholders. Movie moguls need to be smart about how to manage talent. The reason [longtime Universal Studios owner] Lew Wasserman was able to make more money than anyone was that he set the culture of the industry. In his day there was an unspoken understanding of how you did business, a culture of co-operation. Somewhere along the way it became cool to steal talent at a bigger price - it made you a bigger...
...That's also why the folks who own the formats for game shows or soap operas are better off than those who make Friends. Because when it becomes a hit, all the money has to be handed over to the stars...
...modify loans? Foreclosure activity is six times what it was four years ago. Those are numbers that the system really isn't set up to handle. And there are more complications. For example, one of the delays in processing foreclosures right now is that the servicers are trying to make sure that every loan in their portfolio either qualifies or doesn't qualify for HAMP [Home Affordable Modification Program, the Federal Government's attempt to incentivize more modifications]. Even if you've already screened a loan to see if it might qualify for your own modification programs...
...primitive surgical painkilling mechanisms were before the invention of ether, Wilder adds. According to the medical historian Paul Strathern, for example, the greatest French surgeon of the early 19th century, Guillaume Dupuytren, once reported that the best method he had discovered for anesthetizing his female patients was to make a "brutal remark" and hope they fell into a faint...
...Ukrainian government’s policies on swine flu make quarantines and Purell dispensers look like amateur efforts. Due to rising fears about a possible swine flu epidemic, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliya V. Tymoshenko announced a nationwide ban on public gatherings, the closing of all schools for three weeks, and various travel restrictions. The strict measures come at a critical time in the Ukrainian presidential campaign, with Tymoshenko closely trailed by opposition leader Victor Yanukovich in the polls. Although we realize that the spread of H1N1 is a serious health issue, these measures seem extreme and dubious given the election...