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...result was that Under the Same Moon surpassed the previous record for a Spanish-language movie, Ladron Que Roba a Ladron, by nearly $1 million, despite opening on fewer screens. This weekend the movie will expand from 266 screens to 400 before going wider still on April...
...move comes just over six months after HMC's previous chief, Mohamed A. El-Erian announced he would step down. Robert Kaplan, a former vice chairman at Goldman Sachs and a professor at the Harvard Business School, has acted as interim CEO since January 1 and, the University says, will now serve on HMC's board of directors...
When El-Erian assumed leadership of HMC in 2006, the firm was severely in need of rebuilding, having lost more than 30 employees when the previous CEO, Jack R. Meyer left to form his own hedge fund with $500 million in seed money from the University...
...moving new novel set in London in 1979, during the strikebound Winter of Discontent. As recounted by Chris years later, it's an aching tale of love and loss in which the protagonists embody the profound but fragile relationships strangers can build and the pain of intimacy corrupted. "A previous draft was about sexual obsession, and it left a rather bad taste in the mouth," says De Bernières, who grew up in Surrey, just south of London, and now lives on a farm in Norfolk on England's east coast. "I rewrote it as a love story...
...seven previous books, De Bernières uses history to define his central characters. In 1979, the U.K. was mired in economic gloom, and he maps the bleakness of that time directly onto Chris's personality. A hopeless dullard who watches youth movements sweep the world but pass him by, Chris represents the mediocrity of a time and place in which trash lined the streets and protesting cemetery workers refused to bury the dead. "His psychological state is very like everybody's in 1979 when the country seemed to be going nowhere," says De Bernières. "It didn...