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...Magellan, once the largest stock fund of any kind, has seen its assets shrivel to less than half its peak of $110 billion in 2000. It lost its biggest-fund title to the Vanguard Index 500 in April 2000, and isn't even Fidelity's largest fund today-it now trails the $56 billion Fidelity Contrafund. But Magellan remains by far the company's most visible-and hence most important-fund. During half of the years in the 1977-to-1990 tenure of the incomparable Peter Lynch, the fund recorded gains of more than 30%. To some of the company...
Through my addiction to perusing the entertainment blogosphere, I soon learned that “My Name is Earl” star Jason Lee was also sneaking into homes, ready to make pronouncements from under a glossy page. NBC, so worried that the whole network will shrivel up and die, took it one disturbing step further by adding television monitors featuring clips of the show to the shirts of some officially titled “Adwalker-brand ambassadors” (read: pretty women) in Santa Monica at an outside mini-premiere of “Earl?...
...What Time Is It There? had in every frame: authentic feeling. Instead of the emotion that suffused the earlier movie?however artfully repressed?in Goodbye we get minutes-long still shots of an empty theater. There are occasional flashes of Tsai's skill for silent comedy, but the payoffs shrivel beneath the lumbering weight of the setups. The film is full of atmosphere?it positively leaks it, like an old, worn-down movie house leaks light?but it has little else. Watching Goodbye is like facing off in a staring contest with the director. Except in this case, everybody loses...
...French utility and telecommunications company's stock, he wasn't the only media exec seduced by an ill-considered merger; the wedding of Time Warner (parent of TIME) to AOL comes to mind. But that's not much comfort to the Bronfman clan, which has seen its stake shrivel (in part because of stock sales) from $6.5 billion to a little more than $1 billion. So where will Edgar Jr. get the money for his bid? Analysts say Universal Music Group could sell for about $7 billion, and the rest of the entertainment units--Universal Pictures, TV networks including...
...never smoked pot in junior high because I was convinced it would shrivel my incipient manhood. This was the 1980s, and those stark this-is-your-brain-on-drugs ads already had me vaguely worried about memory loss and psychosis. But when other boys said pot might affect our southern regions, I was truly terrified. I didn't smoke a joint for the first time until...