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...When it came to breaking box-office records, Batman wasn't flying solo. Universal's Mamma Mia! earned $27.6 million to snare the best opening for a musical, narrowly beating out last summer's Hairspray and helping propel the record weekend sales across the industry...
Vaulting ambition helped propel Nicolas Sarkozy to the Elysée Palace, but when it comes to extending his grandiose plans to Europe, the French President risks a noisy clatter to the floor...
...doesn't condone iPhone porn distribution and will ban adult content from official applications, just as it has restricted adult content in the podcast section of the Apple store. But it can't prevent customers from accessing porn through the device's browser. Indeed, the new iPhone may eventually propel mobile porn deeper into the sphere of interactivity. Blogger Jason Swifter has already imagined one such scenario. "I wish there was an application that allowed you to undress people by dragging your fingers across the screen and literally dragging it off," he wrote on iPhonematters.com. Apple says that more than...
...acquisition of V&S brings Pernod Ricard closer than ever to its goal of catching Diageo. The combined company will have global sales of 91 million cases, compared with Diageo's 93 million. Absolut alone will propel Pernod Ricard from fourth place to second in the North American market, with a 14% market share, compared with Diageo's 26%. Can the former pastis family business become the global drinks leader? The banks that financed the deal in a difficult market show that for some, at least, the answer to that question is Absolut...
Scoreless through the first two innings, the teams exchanged runs in the third, each putting up three. The Crimson quickly answered with a solo shot by Murphy and an RBI double by Vertovez to propel Harvard ahead 5-3, a lead it would not surrender. The Crimson scored twice more on an RBI Murphy single and long ball by Francis. The insurance runs proved key in what ended up being a close game...