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...celebrate their faith by listening to biblically inspired music that rocks - though that is certainly a big part of it. Organizers say they're also sending a message to the outside world that these teens are sick of the sex, drugs and violence that permeates their culture. Teen Mania Ministries, the Texas-based group that is organizing the tour, says that teens see 14,000 sexual scenes on TV each year, and another 10,000 rapes, assaults and murders. Some 90% of 8-to-16-year-olds have been exposed to porn online, they claim, most of it while doing...
MILAN Milanese enjoy trendy fashion, but they keep their makeup clean, which is why Giorgio Armani's Eye Mania eye shadow ($55) sells out at La Rinascente...
...made a lot of stupid action films," says Joel Silver, a producer on V. "But when we made the Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that." In the mid-1990s, back before Keanu knew kung fu, the Wachowskis wrote a screenplay of V for Vendetta. When Matrix mania finally subsided in 2003, they had the time to get the movie made. Just as important, they'd earned Warner Bros. $600 million in the U.S. at the box office, and that kind of money buys you the kind of good will you need to make a risky film. Instead...
...While banks such as Nomura Holdings and Merrill Lynch tend to focus on large deals, like the $30 billion takeover that formed Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group or the $3.5 billion marriage of cosmetics company Kao with Kanebo Cosmetics, the M&A mania has also spread to smaller companies. Terrie Lloyd, an M&A consultant with 23 years of experience in Japan, says he encounters more and more Japanese investors who are interested in buying a motley batch of companies, pasting them together into mini-conglomerates with dubious business merit, and flipping them via an IPO: "This is a new phenomenon...
...height of dotcom mania, a lot of folks found it easy to hold up the boss for a raise. ?Give me what I?m worth or I?ll pack up my family pictures and head to BigDreams.com,? went the threat. It worked for a while. Then BigDreams.com went bust, the economy went with it, and working stiffs have been pining for the glory days of easy job-hopping and fat pay hikes ever since. Are those days coming back...