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...Most Lavish Home-Shopping Spree The QVC network's $10.5 billion bid to buy Paramount Communications. Paramount had hoped to merge with TV conglomerate Viacom. But QVC's Barry Diller, who can build grudges into empires, vowed to take over his old studio by wooing or warring. The courts, and finally Paramount's board, agreed to give him the chance...
Directed by Gore Verbinski Paramount Pictures 3 1/2 STARS Who among us has not wanted to throw a Wendy’s Frosty at Nicolas Cage? Or any famous person, for that matter? There’s something nauseating about the American culture of celebrity, where the great goal is to be seen on TV, regardless of talent. In Gore Verbinski’s new film, “The Weather Man,” the titular character is actually the target of such attacks, and the film itself might be read as a pie-in-the-face...
...Bernanke's view, to lessen the possibility of a surprise that could create panic, it is paramount that financial markets understand what the Fed is doing. Although he believes in balancing formulas and judgment calls, Bernanke has argued for picking a target rate for inflation and making clear that the Fed would cut interest rates when inflation fell below the target and raise them when it pushed above. Bernanke's presumed target: about 3% for the Consumer Price Index...
...Farrakhan: I had lost so much blood from an ulcer. They put several units of blood into me and brought me back. So when I was blessed with life I knew that although my own people's suffering is paramount in my heart and mind, all human suffering now is a cause for me and what I represent...
...cited as an additional motivation for the protests. Moore presented the issue as one of academic freedom and claimed that both the lecture and the protest were proof of the university’s respect for it. “Academic freedoms and rights of freedom of speech are paramount,” Moore said in reference to Monday’s events. “This is really an example of free speech at work.” Alonzo agreed and said that he supported Huntington’s right to speak. But he also said that the assertions...