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...profit margins high--as much as 50%, according to Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Reif Cohen. By 2008, Cohen projects, the business will grow to $3.9 billion annually. The biggest beneficiaries: Time Warner, which owns HBO, Warner Bros. and New Line (and this magazine); Viacom, with its Paramount and MTV divisions; and 20th Century Fox, which is mostly owned by News Corp. Big-name actors like James Gandolfini of The Sopranos and Dave Chappelle of Chappelle's Show are grabbing for a bigger piece of the DVD pie during contract negotiations. --By Barbara Kiviat
...Environmental Studies Stephen Prina that the mastery of technique is not an end in itself. Instead, they argue that technique must be put to the service of an individual’s ideas. Teaching students to explore their personal directions through work with materials seems to be the paramount pedagogical goal...
...Caligula, one of Camus’ most unremittingly existentialist plays, gore and death are so paramount that they lose their meaning. Caligula inhabits a world that is relentlessly bleak. Within this delicately articulated universe, the charcters become stringently allegorical, and the play becomes increasingly hard to infuse with humanity...
...China Aviation Oil of Singapore disclosed that it had lost $550 million in derivative trading and was near bankruptcy. The firm had wrongly bet - and redoubled - that oil prices would decline. A Sharper Picture The future of high-definition TV (HDTV) got some focus when four Hollywood studios (Universal, Paramount, Warner Bros. and New Line) agreed to release titles in the HD-DVD format. Sony, backer of the rival Blu-ray format, was taking solace in its forecast that the European market for sets had been seriously underestimated: HDTV adoption could reach 20 million by 2008 - four times previous industry...
...Paramount Pictures...