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...sense of dissatisfaction Shyamalan often wrings from his characters, the problems of the central couple are not exactly earth-shaking. They're childless, he's a little exasperated that she's so withdrawn, and she shared an apparently innocent dessert with a colleague who keeps pestering her with cell-phone messages. Wahlberg does all his fretting with a furrowed brow (which has not two but three vertical lines, possibly a new fashion statement for anxiety), while Deschanel bites her lip and rolls her gigantic blue eyes. Neither actor can come close to the hollow-eyed anxiety that Bruce Willis displayed...
Selling televisions and computers is a fickle business, but the giant leading the pack keeps on growing. Best Buy, the world's largest consumer electronics retailer just snapped up half of Carphone Warehouse, the largest mobile phone retailer in the U. K. The marriage helps Best Buy gain a foothold in Europe and expand its business into cell phone sales, while giving Carphone Warehouse a leg up in electronics. Best Buy CEO and vice chairman Brad Anderson talks with TIME's Kristina Dell about global expansion, best-selling products and how he made the jump from sales clerk...
Last month Best Buy paid $2.1 billion for half of Carphone Warehouse, the largest cell phone retailer in Europe. What's the strategy behind this...
...public-transportation system, so it operates as one," says Bernard Parisot, president of JCDecaux NA, the outdoor-advertising company that runs Vélib with the profits it makes from selling ads on bus shelters and billboards. To help keep impatience to a minimum, Vélib sends cell-phone alerts about which stations have bikes available. "It's a real revolution," says Parisot. So much so that the mayors of New York City and Chicago have made visits to get a better idea of how a Parisian-style program might work in their cities...
...torrent of abuse by email from Ortega loyalists, but for Guillen, an evangelical Christian whose newspaper was heavily censored and temporarily shut down by the first Sandinista government during the 1980s, the threats hit a lot closer to home. After receiving several e-mail death threats and a cell phone text from someone who threatened to crucify his young daughter, Guillen packed up his family and moved to Miami - from where he continues to file daily cartoons for La Prensa...