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Eric Wold, an analyst for Merriman Curhan Ford & Co., believes IMAX gives movie studios and multiplex owners a competitive advantage--and generates extra revenues for both. Or as Dan Fellman, head of domestic theatrical distribution for Warner Bros. (owned by TIME'S parent company), puts it: "IMAX 'event-izes' your movie. It's that simple...
While such historians as James McPherson and David McCullough have praised her work, critics say Hakim, who is neither a historian nor a scientist, can be too politically correct and sometimes inaccurate. A school in Florida took A History of US out of its classrooms in 2002 after a parent complained that the passages on the Vietnam war were too liberal. "I try very, very hard to be fair," says Hakim, "and I feel a responsibility not to present my bias." But, she says, opposing viewpoints and complex ideas belong in books for middle-schoolers. "Their minds are much more...
...April 10, 2003. Milan magistrates have indicted him for disseminating false information. In his last few months at Parmalat, Ferraris also worked on several financing deals that are part of the ongoing criminal investigation, including ones with UBS, Morgan Stanley and Nextra Investment Management. In October, Nextra's parent, Italy's Banca Intesa, agreed to pay $208 million to Parmalat to avoid being taken to civil court for misstating the interest rate on a $390 million bond issue...
...number of students accepted early from families with no higher education background increased almost 30 percent, Fitzsimmons said. Smaller gains were also seen in numbers of accepted students with only one college-educated parent...
...house with no running water, rose to become one of Singapore's highest paid executives after he turned around CAO, the Singapore-listed subsidiary of a Chinese state-owned company, which was given a monopoly on China's jet-fuel imports in 2001. CAO notified its Beijing parent of its growing loss on Oct. 10, according to an affidavit filed at Singapore's High Court. The parent approved the sale of 15% of CAO on Oct. 20. The investment arm of the Singaporean government, Temasek Holdings, bought about 2% of the company...