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...First disc “I am”—complete with orchestral love songs and emotional, echoic ballads—can only be described as continuous. It’s hard to tell where one song ends and another begins. The lack of melodic variation gives rise to one long, epic complaint on the shortcomings of men. The disc is enticing in that the first three songs—“If I Were a Boy,”” Halo,” and “Disappear?...
...Mark Cuban, the guy, is just a shareholder - he has no obligation," says Jonathan Macey, a professor of securities law and deputy dean at the Yale School of Management. "The critical question is if anything happened in that phone call that gave rise to a promise." Under an SEC rule adopted in 2000, if Cuban agreed to keep the information confidential, then he had a "duty of trust or confidence...
...acquire about 40 homes, less than 1% of the more than 4,000 units the city has in foreclosure, which amounts to the worst housing crash in hard-hit Florida. Meanwhile, foreclosures nationwide, the root of the U.S. economic crisis, keep piling up: last month saw a frightening 25% rise in mortgage collapses compared with October 2007. (See TIME's video "Facing Foreclosure in Tampa...
...right," says Choi Sung Young, who was able to take advantage of rare southerly winds on the peninsula on Thursday to launch nearly a dozen gas-filled balloons, containing thousands of flyers pillorying Kim Jong Il's regime, and watch them float toward the border. (See pictures of The Rise of Kim Jong...
...other analysts say there is a danger that the radical faction among the exiles, many of them younger members of the community who have criticized the Dalai Lama's self-described "third way" of trying to persuade Beijing to change its attitude on Tibet through negotiation, not independence, could rise to prominence. After all, as the Dalai Lama's representative Tenzin Taklha told reporters earlier in November, the consultative meeting would examine the exile group's approach to achieving their goal of a freer Tibet from the ground up. "Everything will be on the table," he said, except the fundamental...