Word: numberers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unplanned essay in misogyny. Then again, everything goes awry here. A restaurant scene with Abby wearing vibrating underpants (a gloss on Meg Ryan's fake orgasm in When Harry Met Sally) is an embarrassment; the R-rated jokes earn only smirks; even the obligatory falling-in-love dance number gets botched. Blame Heigl, who's also an executive producer of the film. After Knocked Up and 27 Dresses she seemed primed to be the new Sandra Bullock, but this debacle makes Bullock's lame The Proposal shine like a screwball-comedy...
...your book, you detail several big online ventures started by smart mainstream-media titans that failed. What don't the mainstream media understand about blogging? Today there are a huge number of really great blogs under the umbrella of traditional-media companies. In the earliest days, it took a while to figure out that this form made sense. But I think it's still hard for a lot of media companies to really hand a journalist the keys to a blog and say, Go do your thing. And it's hard for journalists, even if given that freedom...
...Spooking analysts and investors is the fact that losses at several of Citi's businesses continue to grow. What's more, a number of executive departures are complicating the bank's turnaround efforts. Lastly, while Citi's lending losses are not growing as fast as they were, the bank's loans are still going bad at a higher rate than that of its rivals...
Harvard undergoes a number of subtle changes during the summer: There’s a little more sunshine, a few less people, and a whole lot more smiling. As a result, summer school students seem to relish time outdoors a bit more than their term-time counterparts, which has led to another quiet change in campus life—the resurgence of intramurals...
...struggle against terrorism in Afghanistan. With the U.S. increasing military pressure in Afghanistan and Pakistan mounting security operations along its border with the country, fighters from Russia and the ex-Soviet republics of the Caucasus and Central Asia are returning home. And while that trend decreases the number of foreigners fighting American soldiers in Afghanistan, authorities fear it could export the violence into Central Asia, upsetting the fragile peace in the region's poorest republics...