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...embarassed [sic] I paid the 1.50 for the paper...
...tide is now turning in Europe. Charles Grant, director of the London-based Centre for European Reform, published a paper last month arguing that Europeans need to agree on a single message in their dealings with China so that Beijing can't play a game of divide and conquer. At the same time, he said, the E.U. should "abandon the fiction of a 'strategic partnership,'" which cannot be meaningful with such divergent value systems, and focus on a limited number of issues on which China and the E.U. can find agreement...
...company's finances have improved marginally. The record division made nearly $250 million in underlying profit in the fiscal year 2009, while the company's music-publishing arm, which oversees songwriters, generated $208 million. Both profits, though, were wiped out by massive write-downs, which created a largely paper loss of $2.4 billion. "With that level of debt in the business, the reality is that EMI is now almost worthless," says Simon Dyson, editor of the London-based industry newsletter Music & Copyright. (See the 100 best albums of all time...
Just in case you need some time away from your first problem set (or that paper that was assigned way too early), here are some good distractions for an important cause...
...those is The Daily Show, which commands Times-like faith among its fans. Last year, it did a segment on the Times's woes, in which Jason Jones mocked the paper's dead-tree format and landline phones. "Look at me," he laughed, picking one up. "I'm a reporter from the '80s, makin' sure everything's factual...