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...produced by Focus Features, a division of GE's Universal Pictures, but rights to the original Superman TV show are held by a competing studio, Warner Bros. (a sister company of this magazine and website). "It was difficult dealing with Warner Bros., because they were extremely protective of their ownership rights," says Coulter, a first-time film director who previously helmed episodes of The Sopranos and Sex and the City...
...telco monopoly Telstra was first offered to the public in 1997. A few years later, with our second child on board, we bought more shares when a further slab of the company was privatized in the so-called T2 offer. Australians were then still relatively new to direct share ownership, once the preserve of the wealthy. The stock market was buoyant, especially the technology and telecommunication sectors. If there was any qualm about the wider economy ("a miracle economy" after sailing through the Asian financial crisis), it was that Australia's was an "old" economy. Too reliant on commodity exports...
...leading home-mortgage firms, calculates that property worth $680 billion will change hands between now and 2020 - about 10% of the total housing stock in the nation and the largest transfer of housing wealth in British history. The impact is so big because the baby boomers have transformed home ownership: about 70% of households now own their own homes, more than double the 31% that did in 1946, according to Halifax, a subsidiary of the financial-services group HBOS. The firm reckons the inheritance-tax threshold should be raised substantially, to $813,000, to bring it in line with...
According to Valerie Papaya Mann, president of the African American Association of Ghana, there are approximately 5,000 African Americans living in Ghana. Mann sees tangible benefits from dual citizenship, like voting rights and land ownership, but much of her case is rooted in other things. "We're saying, as African Americans who were taken from these shores hundreds of years ago, we also should have the rights to dual citizenship," she says...
...administrators are staying mum about the results of an Aug. 7 meeting between HCL and several other libraries who have had maps stolen from their collections by map thief E. Forbes Smiley III.Federal authorities were also present at the meeting at Yale University, which was held to determine ownership of the 97 maps that Smiley has admitted to stealing over a seven-year period.HCL Director of Communications Beth S. Brainard said that the meeting was positive and productive, but that the libraries agreed not to comment on the meeting’s proceedings. Harvard will not announce whether it will...