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Even though Ben Affleck has donned Daredevil's horns, directors are finding it a slog to get A-list stars to play comic-book crusaders...
...driver and guide to take us cross-country from the capital, Ulan Bator, to the northwestern Lake Hovsgol in a Swiss Alpine--like region of reindeer herders near the Russian border. Though the trip is scheduled for two days, it takes four to grind over dried-out riverbeds and slog through mud bogs between hills that roll like waves and crest into craggy rock. The land is so empty at times that a mere stand of trees is welcome relief...
...Autonomy, which recently won a contract initially worth about $3 million to provide the software for information collection, analysis and routing for the 22 agencies that fall under the new Department of Homeland Security (DHS). But few other contracts have been signed thus far, as the feds slog through the swampy process of budgeting, appropriating and procuring. "We've all been waiting for the wheelbarrows of money to show up," says Leonard Pomata, president of the government division of webMethods, based in Fairfax, Va. "Aside from the emergency funding that has been spent on guards and gates and guns...there...
...Faculty didn’t come out and say this, and the College left plenty of time for CASV members to imagine the worst before they came out with their belated spin on the change. Students have been left to slog through the two opposing question-and-answer press releases that both sides have circulated, while listening to the near-hysterical CASV members who have been canvassing the dining halls...
...could be a tough slog for Kirch's new chief executives, Wolfgang van Betteray, an insolvency specialist, and Hans-Joachim Ziems, a Kirch adviser. "My experience is that they will never get all the creditors behind such a complicated insolvency plan," said Wolfgang Petereit, a bankruptcy expert in Mainz. "The commercial interests of the creditor groups are totally different." What's worse, the new law requires companies emerging from bankruptcy to keep all the employees on the payroll and honor existing employment contracts, which scares off many potential investors. Complicating matters in Kirch's case is the company's opaque...