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...There's no question that the worsening economy is prompting some belt-tightening in the entertainment industry. NBC Universal is cutting $500 million from next year's budget and Viacom's Paramount Pictures is shrinking its slate from 25 movies a year to 20. But how bad the industry is hurt and which sectors are hit hardest will depend in part on an important calculation that consumers make - how much is an hour of fun worth...
...question on everybody's mind is, what happens now?I try not to comment on current events directly. I think that we've got to progressively become a society where banks are deemed to be too precious for us, for our currency, to take too much risk. We need to have a banker who is just as responsible as someone working for the water company. Banks are going to become a utility. And banks probably will not have a lot on their balance sheet, and the risks taken will be borne by individuals like myself who have capital...
Shortly after taking office, President Bush was confronted with a question that few politicians up to that point had spent time on—whether to support federal funding for embryonic stem cell research...
...along with De Niro—seems tired and hackneyed in “What Just Happened?” If viewers want exposure to interesting, true Hollywood stories, they should just read Linson’s book. Toward the end of the movie, Robin Wright Penn poses the question “What just happened?” Yet most viewers will probably think to themselves, “I couldn’t care less.” —Staff writer Edward F. Coleman can be reached at efcolem@fas.harvard.edu...
...Cuba really does have 20 billion bbl. to drill, however, it could more easily find other interested refinery investors, like Brazil. The question is whether the U.S. will want to step off the sidelines and get a piece of the action too. Kirby Jones, head of the U.S.-Cuba Trade Association and an embargo opponent, says Tenreyro's staff has been credible in the past, and he believes the new estimate is probably accurate. "So for the U.S., this becomes an 800-lb. guerrilla knocking on everybody's door," says Jones. "With that much oil, there would be the feeling...