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...proposed buyout also has some investors scratching their heads. Wind, with 12 million subscribers, is Italy's third-largest mobile-phone service, but has never made a profit. While about ?7 billion of the total ?12.2 billion valuation is debt that's likely to be refinanced as part of the deal, the acquisition is expensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Meets West | 4/24/2005 | See Source »

Digital technology is taking over: DVD has become the profit-king in the industry; people are watching movies on their laptops; and Tom Hanks was morphed into a plastic nightmare in “The Polar Express.” With Sony’s recent announcement that their entire backlog of films will be digitized and stored on high-capacity hard drives, the signs that we’re entering a new era of the filmic imagination are all around...

Author: By Clint J. Froehlich, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cinema at the Century's Dawn | 4/22/2005 | See Source »

...most significant benefits. Fraternities and sororities would similarly gain from University recognition, though the proposal currently does not allow nationally-affiliated groups limited recognition—a stipulation that we hope the University reconsiders. These groups, which currently have very limited access to space and funds, would thus profit most from the new system...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Including Exclusivity | 4/21/2005 | See Source »

Thunderbird, an open-source application, was developed by the not-for-profit Mozilla Foundation, the same organization that created the popular Firefox web browser. Though Thunderbird is available both from the HASCS site and directly from the Mozilla site, the Harvard version has been specially adapted for FAS affiliates and includes an integrated Harvard phone and e-mail address book...

Author: By Jonathan M. Siegel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Secure E-mail Client Touted | 4/21/2005 | See Source »

...countries have 70 to 80 percent of their populations living on less than a dollar a day; while they may be willing to send troops, they cannot afford the five dollars a day required to clothe, house, feed and arm a soldier, especially one on a mission with no profit for the country. Thus, nations have donated troops, but they are ill-equipped. Some have failed to reach Sudan because their countries cannot afford to fly them there...

Author: By Hillary M. Mutisya, | Title: The Genocide Intervention Fund | 4/21/2005 | See Source »

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