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Whether for love of art or of money, book publisher Random House has decided to revive the Godfather saga. The problem is, the novel's author, Mario Puzo, died in 1999. To get around that, Random House senior editor Jonathan Karp, who worked with Puzo at the end of his life, sent an e-mail to literary agents to seek an author who is at roughly the same career point that Puzo was when he wrote the novel in 1969. There may not be too many writers eager to confess to that. Puzo said he wrote the story...
...INDICATORS Feeling Fragile U.S. and European consumers may be running out of steam. In the U.S., the Conference Board consumer confidence index crashed from 93.7 to a nine-year low of 79.4, while surveys in Germany, France and the U.K. also showed a loss of faith in the economy. Mario Vs. Super Mario The score was Mario Monti 1, Nintendo €149 million, as the European Commission levied its fifth-largest fine ever against the Japanese video-games company for keeping prices artificially high in some E.U. states during the 1990s. Gross Domestic Product When hundreds of ASDA's British...
...thing to be attacked by Jack Welch and quite another to be savaged by the European Court of First Instance. That's what Mario Monti, the E.U.'s competition Commissioner, is discovering. Monti famously withstood pressure from Welch, the former General Electric chairman, when the E.U. last year blocked GE's $43 billion acquisition of Honeywell. But last week Monti took a one-two punch from Bo Vesterdorf, president of the Luxembourg-based Court, in separate rulings that savaged the "errors, omissions and contradictions in the Commission's economic reasoning." The court overturned vetoes blocking two mergers: Schneider Electric...
...Biology, is a member who sees Tetris as “a ton of fun. It also reminds me of when I was younger, hanging out with the neighborhood kids,” she says, and enthuses that “if there’s a Super Mario Club, I’ll totally sign up for that...
...sense, Pataki's smooth glide toward a third term represents a personal triumph: the obscure state senator from Peekskill rose to fame eight years ago by toppling the mercurial Mario Cuomo, thanks mainly to being so unlike him. Like the straight man in old screwball comedies, the man who made bland a brand owed his success to being unobjectionable; but he owes his survival, in a state with 5 Democrats for every 3 Republicans, to moving so far to the center that the center itself has moved. He gave the teachers a raise; he subsidized prescription drugs for seniors...