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...fourth-floor courtroom of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of California, which serves San Diego and Imperial counties (pop. 3.4 million), Chief Judge Peter W. Bowie's docket is overflowing. Bowie has 77 Chapter 13 bankruptcies on his Tuesday calendar, one of which is the case of Juan Flores...
...Diego and Imperial counties alone, bankruptcy filings have increased 379%, spiking from 4,210 in 2006, the peak of the housing boom, to 20,193 in 2009. Nationally, more than 1.4 million business and consumer bankruptcy petitions were filed in 2009, up 32% from the 2008 figure, and Samuel J. Gerdano, executive director of the American Bankruptcy Institute, says the number of consumer filings (Chapter 7 and 13) in 2010 will likely surpass those in 2009. If the just-released March numbers are any indication, Gerdano is probably right...
Clash was the third new stereoptic release in a month, after Alice in Wonderland (now well past $300 million at home, and at $672.8 million worldwide) and last weekend's topper, How to Train Your Dragon (already closing in on $100 million domestic). Apparently audiences are insatiable for movies for which they have to wear goggles. The Hollywood bosses like them too, since they can charge an extra $3 or $4 per ticket for the privilege of seeing a movie like Clash that is retrofitted with no other purpose than greed. This time, audiences responded to the saturation marketing campaign...
...Clash of the Titans, $61.4 million, first weekend 2. Why Did I Get Married Too, $30.2 million, first weekend 3. How to Train Your Dragon, $29.2 million; $92.3 million, second week 4. The Last Song, $16.2 million; $25.6 million, first five days 5. Alice in Wonderland, $8.3 million; $309.8 million, fifth week 6. Hot Tub Time Machine, $8 million; $27.8 million, second week 7. The Bounty Hunter, $6.2 million; $49 million, third week 8. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, $5.5 million; $46.2 million, third week 9. She's Out of My League, $1.463 million; $28.7 million, fourth week 10. Shutter...
...number of students can also mask the growing unemployment problem in France, according to François Ameli, a professor of international law at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. "The philosophy of France [on higher education] is a mass sort of thing. We have over 2.2 million students, which is a lot for a country of 60 million," Ameli says. "Universities are also a reservoir before unemployment, so [the government] can avoid putting students into statistics." (See pictures of the evolution of the college dorm...