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...prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. After a long bout with thyroid cancer and complications that left him unable to speak, Ebert made his first public appearance in nearly a year at the 2007 Ebertfest. "We spend too much time hiding illness," he wrote in a press release, issued just prior to the fest. "There is an assumption that I must always look the same. I hope to look better than I look now. But I'm not going to miss my Festival." TIME interviewed Ebert via e-mail...
...pleased that Richard Roeper and I will be presenting a new movie review program, to be announced in the near future. It will involve Richard, of the Chicago Sun-Times, Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune and Christy Lemire of the Associated Press. I have made no public comment about what Disney has done to our show...
...that the boards of the New York Times Co. and Yahoo! will not craft a merger. It would give the newspaper a larger audience and potentially better advertising income. It would allow Yahoo! to step away from using the Associated Press, the wire service whose news stories go out to thousands of media outlets around the world, making its product dumbed down for readers...
...Political influence is by no means a new story at the housing agencies, but nonetheless one that is currently having a material influence on the people tasked with steering them back to financial health. When Freddie Mac's CEO resigned in March, press reports pegged part of the cause to his frustration over how all major decisions had to be run past regulators and how those decisions were often dictated by policy goals and not what was best for the company. Freddie Mac executives have estimated that this year it will cost the firm $30 billion to carry...
...they were quick to pounce on beleaguered White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. He spent a good portion of Tuesday's contentious press briefing trying to make the case that Obama's comments did not in fact signal any change, despite what other Administration officials, including himself and Emanuel, had said in the past...