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...scant 11 days before we needed him to explain the biggest Big Inexplicable yet. He returned to tape public-service announcements on how to talk to kids about the Sept. 11 anniversary, but the anxiety has only built since then. War jitters, orange alerts and duct-tape mania have rendered literal our most childlike, monsters-under-the-bed fears: that a tall building can collapse like a house of cards, that something bad can seep in ghostlike through your window and hurt...
...Monica mania is no longer a secret hoarded by European cinephiles. In this year's avidly awaited sequels to The Matrix, she plays Persephone, Queen of the Virtual World. She will be Mary Magdalene in Mel Gibson's Jesus film, The Passion. But why wait? Tears, a smart, sturdy war film with a lot of heart and a little cleavage, opens this week. And in the art houses there's more, much more of Bellucci in Gaspar Noe's defiantly lurid Irreversible, in which, for nine minutes, her character endures the most brutal rape scene in movie history...
...scant 11 days before we needed him to explain the biggest Big Inexplicable yet. He returned to tape public-service announcements on how to talk to kids about the Sept. 11 anniversary, but the anxiety has only built since then. War jitters, orange alerts and duct-tape mania have rendered literal our most childlike, monsters-under-the-bed fears: that a tall building can collapse like a house of cards, that something bad can seep in ghostlike through your window and hurt...
TIME: What are you doing right now to prepare for dividend mania...
...particular category," says Accenture's Blumberg. "From a research perspective, with smaller companies, it's relatively hit or miss that the next drug is going to fit in with their commercial strength. With a large company, you're much more likely to have good coverage." Some doubt that merger mania is genuinely benefiting the companies involved. Robert Gray, a mergers and acquisitions expert at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, says industry mergers have not done as well as expected. "Between 60-80% failed to enhance shareholder returns," he says, adding that integration can take two to four years, and most companies...