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Even though today is forecast to be slightly warmer than yesterday, meteorologists are predicting that today’s cold will smash a record low set in 1920. As of last night, about 300 schools across Massachusetts had cancelled classes, rather than have children risk frostbite...

Author: By Jackie Montalvo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Set To Scream | 1/16/2004 | See Source »

...pegged at $8.75, with a 100-share minimum. The IPO, which is set to end Feb. 10, aims to raise $7.9 million. In theory, investors will be able to trade shares over the counter, but the market is untested, to say the least. If the film is a smash--the vast majority of films are not--investors get back their initial investment and then split profits with the filmmakers. Even the prospectus says not to count on a happy ending: "You should purchase shares only if you can afford a complete loss." Says Civilian Capital founder Barry Poltermann: "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's IPO | 12/15/2003 | See Source »

...Bourne first hit the big time when his 1995 reworking of Swan Lake - which cast men as the swans - became a smash, transferring to the West End for a record-breaking 21-week run. Broadway followed, as did international tours and more than 25 major awards. Next came Cinderella, set in the London Blitz, and Car Man, a film noir treatment of Bizet's classic. Both had major West End runs. But the critics were not entirely impressed; many dismissed Bourne as a showman rather than a dance man, a label that has stuck. The Mail on Sunday has called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lord Of The Dance | 12/14/2003 | See Source »

...didn’t have a smash hit single, or you know, a song to break us,” adds guitarist and lead singer Yan. “It’s been a real gradual buildup, and that’s basically been because we played live a lot. We’ve always thought we had a good thing live. It was just getting a lot of people to see it, and it grew...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Review: British Sea Power | 11/21/2003 | See Source »

When times are good, life is good for the shoe salesman. When times are bad, life is good for the shoe repairman. In the network-TV business, times are not so good. Its biggest hits are aging and atrophying, with no breakout smash among the fall's new shows. So the networks have hung on to several high-profile series, each with a potentially fatal flaw, to see if they can buff them up and get a few more seasons' use out of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Extreme Makeovers | 11/10/2003 | See Source »

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