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When asked about what he thought about the show, Green said, "It's great just playing with my best friends, and having the audience sitting in and listening so closely." In this age of mega pop-stars and ultra-celebrities, that vulnerable relationship between artist and audience is often worn threadbare. Still, it's great that there are chances for the jazz fan to do just that-sit in and listen closely...
Take this new movie, for instance. When you first heard that Saturday Night Live's mega-popular Ladies Man sketch-generally regarded as one of the few remaining SNL sketches that are actually funny-was being turned into a movie, I'll wager the inflated cost of a movie ticket that this exact thought, or some variation thereof, flashed across your brain...
...buybacks are increasingly concocted to offset the potential dilution of mega-stock-option grants, which exploded in number in the '90s. The strategy is especially prevalent among tech companies, including Dell, Adobe and Autodesk. But others, including Citigroup and Chiron, do it too. The idea is to buy back enough stock so that when executives and employees exercise options, the company can deliver the stock without printing more...
Wednesday's announcement of a mega-merger between J. P. Morgan and Chase Manhattan signals much more than the union of two of the greatest names in American banking...
...pair's $660 billion in combined assets is designed to catapult the new company, to be known as J. P. Morgan Chase & Co., into an elite group of American mega-banks in competition with rivals in Europe as well as Japan. "The U.S. has the world's largest capital markets, and dollars are used everywhere," explains Ron Mandle, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. "This deal helps consolidate America's role at the epicenter of global finance...