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...Read TIME's report of Slumdog Millionaire's unlikely Oscar campaign Read Richard Corliss's Slumdog review...
...review of the massive 162-page document shows Madoff's direct victims but does not list the many other thousands of entities, from banks to charities, that were burned in Madoff pension, feeder and subfeeder funds. In testimony yesterday before the House Financial Services Committee, Harry Markopolos, an early whistle-blower on Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scam, said there were at least 14 known major feeder funds. (See pictures of the demise of Bernie Madoff...
Echo has a different assignment each episode--the three sent for review are a hostage case, a wilderness adventure and a heist caper--which makes Dollhouse a kind of drama-school exercise for Whedon and Dushku. The genre-hopping Whedon is up to the task; his hostage-negotiation story would make a crisp pilot for a CBS procedural. And he unsettlingly conveys the actives' experience of living a constantly interrupted dream. ("Did I fall asleep?" they ask after each treatment.) But Dushku, memorable as the bad-girl Faith in Buffy, isn't much of a chameleon. She's passably callow...
...they can least afford to lose. Especially when companies need to reinvent themselves to survive, she warns, they can't afford the huge costs associated with stressed-out talent: "It's not good for the bottom line," she says, "and it's not good for individuals." The Harvard Business Review looked at a survey of what happened in companies that went through layoffs of even 1% of the workforce: among the surviving workers, they typically saw a 31% increase in turnover. Bigger layoffs led to even higher turnover. Top performers always have options--and, Hewlett notes, women are twice...
...Livio’s love for math and his personal desire to share his awe at its power to explain worldly phenomena. Despite his passion, both Livio’s writing and argument are uneven. At times his prose reads like a history textbook, at others like a review of the latest research in astrophysics. Belying his vigorous attempt to write to the reader, Livio struggles in vain to include sufficient background information necessary for the average reader to match his own remarkable comprehension and unique enthusiasm...