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None of the six wins that inflated its record came against a team currently in fifth place or higher, and five of those victories were taken from programs that are now in ninth place or lower...
...International expansion may make sense for some of China's largest companies and as a matter of national policy. The country's rapidly growing demand for oil means oil companies, including CNOOC, must increase their sources of supply. Unocal is the ninth largest U.S. oil company in terms of its oil reserves. But economists fear that, due to government pressure and national pride, managers will go for deals with inadequate regard for long-term corporate health. To keep growing, Lenovo needed to reach markets beyond the highly competitive domestic electronics sector, and buying IBM's PC unit gives the company...
...Hollywood couplings are as enduring as success and rehab. GEORGE CARLIN has managed to elude that phenomenon longer than most, but last week, as his latest book, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, spent its ninth week on the New York Times best-seller list, the comic announced that he was checking into a substance-abuse facility. In a statement, Carlin revealed he was headed to an unnamed clinic "because I use too much wine and Vicodin." He said his addiction is "nowhere near the worst you hear about ... but my use would have progressed, and I didn...
...this movie!), whereas ?The Passion? took in some 20 million times its $30 million budget (Mel was already rich). But for our purposes, the salient stats are North American revenue. ?Fahrenheit?: just over $119 million. ?The Passion?: just over $370 million - more than three times as much - to rank ninth on the domestic list of all-time money earners. (To be sure, constantly rising ticket prices skew this list. Interestingly, in Box Office Mojo?s ranking of real-dollar all-timers, ?The Passion,? at #51, is only the fifth top-grossing religious epic, following the 1956 ?The Ten Commandments...
...think of Firefox as a stocking stuffer, or a present for the oft-overlooked ninth night of Hanukkah. While you’re sitting around over break with nothing to do but dream about how relaxed you’d be if Harvard adopted a reasonable academic calendar, surf over to http://www.mozilla.org in Internet Explorer and download Firefox on me (isn’t my generosity laudable?): It may well be the last page you visit in Explorer. And if you like it, note that it makes a nice cheap gift to give to your friends, and one they?...