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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...times for Kirch and his eponymous media empire, which is carrying up to $5 billion in bank debt and faces at least $2.1 billion in additional financial obligations. Kirch?s investors and creditors are becoming twitchy, jockeying for position to salvage any slices from what may be a crumbling pie. Last week, Axel Springer, a German publishing concern, exercised a "put" option that required Kirch to purchase $662 million-worth of shares. Later this year, British TV station BSkyB, which has a $1.5 billion "put" option, may follow suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are you ready for your close-up, Mr. Kirch? | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

...Everybody said, ‘They are not stories and, whatever they are, they’re not very good,’” Keret explained as he poked at his mostly uneaten slice of pecan pie (“it doesn’t taste very good,” he said softly so as not to offend the waitress, whom we still tipped generously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Israel’s Hippest Voice Speaks Out | 2/1/2002 | See Source »

...Everybody said, ‘They are not stories and, whatever they are, they’re not very good,’” Keret explained as he poked at his mostly uneaten slice of pecan pie (“it doesn’t taste very good,” he said softly so as not to offend the waitress, whom we still tipped generously...

Author: By Amit R. Paley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Israel's Hippest Voice Speaks Out | 2/1/2002 | See Source »

...meat is a no-no), but you could always console yourself in Cairo with a "McFalafel," or in Bangkok with a "Samurai Pork Burger." Big Macs are hard to find on the menus of the 80 Mcdonald's outlets in Beijing, which include spicy chicken wings and red bean pie - the Big Mac is there, of course, it's just sporting a more grandiose moniker: "Lu Wu Ba" ("huge incomparable warlord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adieu, Ronald McDonald | 1/24/2002 | See Source »

...that’s when the dart hit Dartboard. They are paying for her to look like that. They are paying for her personal chef to make her eggs Benedict, mac and cheese and apple pie tasty but still under her allotted 1,000 calorie daily intake. They are paying for her personal trainer to find new and exciting ways to burn that allotted 1,000 calories a day. They are paying for the Britney...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Dartboard | 1/18/2002 | See Source »

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