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...Stronger Signal Investors gobbled up shares in Premiere, the once-struggling German pay-TV broadcaster. An initial public offering raised up to €1.18 billion, the biggest German IPO so far this year...
...department probably makes an average of one or two tenure offers a year...so to make two offers to Professor Mullainathan and Matthew Rabin is certainly a strong signal that our department is certainly very interested in this field,” says Chair of the Economics Department Alberto Alesina, who says psychology and economics has emerged as a “booming field” in the last five or six years...
...Hizballah's efforts to apply the brakes to a Syrian withdrawal signal a failure of initial opposition efforts to forge an anti-Syria consensus with Nasrallah's movement. It may be touted as non-sectarian, but in reality it represents an amalgam of traditional political forces from the Christian, Sunni Muslim and Druze communities. Hizballah speaks for the majority of Shiites. And its response to the opposition campaign betrays a measure of suspicion that its rivals may be engaging in the longstanding tradition of Lebanese factions drawing in foreign allies to reinforce their own positions...
...even read bodily functions - powers he knows will be needed to save Mary from danger. "Mary impregnates the air with oxytocin, a hormone conducive to trust and uterine contraction," he observes as she chats with Katya, a sinister colleague. "The 2 parts per 17 million diffusion of this chemosensory signal causes Katya, whose biology serves purely Machiavellian ends, to wrinkle her nose." Sayonara Bar's wealth of convincing detail - hostess lounge décor, menus and flirtation techniques, foreign visa technicalities, drunken-salaryman patter, Yakuza personnel policy - suggests that the author has been there and, horrors, maybe even done that...
Public TV's Screen Test Europe's public service broadcasters all tuned in last week when the E.U. Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes warned the German, Dutch and Irish governments that the funding of their state channels could be illegal. Her signal was clear - their "current financing system is no longer in line with E.U. rules." These "preliminary views" arose from complaints by commercial rivals that some website services of the state-owned German channels...