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...Time Inc., the parent company of this magazine) are worth about $19 a share. That leaves AOL near zero. When it reports its first-quarter financial results next week, AOL Time Warner will take a write-down of $54 billion--the biggest such charge in U.S. history--to reflect the decline in value of the combined company. This meltdown has revived questions raised by some Time Warner division heads in the months following the merger: Why was a solid company sold for overinflated AOL stock...
...poem that inevitably calls to memory (and was perhaps inspired by) that staple of high school English curricula, Ray Bradbury’s short story “There will come Soft Rains,” Stallings assumes the voices of machines that have outlived their human masters to reflect on some of humanity’s quirks from the perspective of an outsider...
...there is a common thread in Stallings’ rather diverse themes, it is that Stallings deftly takes something that the reader (presumably) knows well and uses it to reflect on a deeper philosophical theme. The well-known story of Penelope, for example, is turned on its heels as Stallings reflects on relationships and fidelity; In a poem entitled “The Dogdom of the Dead,” Stallings draws some remarkable parallels between the deceased and pet dogs in order to reflect on how we are affected by the death of loved ones...
...down to the ever-so-conscientious way the men would reach their hand under the sheets every time they began to do the deed. For the actors of buck, any embarrassment they may have felt was worth it to tell the story. Fee’s attitude seems to reflect that of the whole cast, saying, “This is what the director wants us to do, this is her play, so we’re going...
...Kirch bankruptcy is the latest in a string of high-profile failures of German companies this year. They include the construction firm Philipp Holzmann, aircraft producer Fairchild Dornier and office supply firm Herlitz. The bankruptcies reflect not only a stagnating economy, but also the reluctance of German banks - facing international pressure to make money for shareholders - to prop up failing enterprises. The government's inability to save the companies is also...