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...best to downplay expectations from the grandly named "Strategic Economic Dialogue" his delegation will conduct with the Chinese. There would be no big announcement after the two days of talks, Paulson told one interviewer, stressing that this was the start of a "long-term dialogue." His downbeat spin is hardly surprising: Beijing has been fending off U.S. demands for years on the issue of currency exchange rates, and also intellectual property rights (meaning pirated movies and brand-name goods). In 1996 this correspondent was told by a White House economist who had just returned from talks with Beijing about closing...
...leave behind in 2005 when they departed the Walt Disney Co. after 12 colorful years. In Harvey's final scene, the two snag back the name from the media giant, which has turned Miramax into a déclassé, financially diminished Mouse brand. Harvey, the brash movie mogul who helped spin the low-budget indie-film trade into a booming business, doesn't need more wealth. And he's not pushing for another Academy Award. He won the hardware in 1999 for producing Shakespeare in Love, and he has marketed pictures that have scored nearly 60 other Oscars. But Miramax holds...
...their indie upbringing taught them to be tight with a dollar and careful about cash flow. A key strategy calls for building a formidable library that can spin off immediate revenues while providing fodder for various platforms. Former MGM owner Kirk Kerkorian--who flipped his studio three times--advised the Weinsteins to scoop up all the solid content they could get their hands on. The fickle nature of the movie business makes each film a gamble. Hence a large library reduces overall risk...
Harvard Girl has spawned spin-offs in China like “Yale Girl,†but they have not fared as well commercially, according to Tang. Nonetheless, she thinks they feed into the Harvard frenzy—a trend she finds dangerous...
...affiliated with Hamas in June. Dana A. Stern ’09, who was at the HSI gathering, said she was disappointed that members of the PSC did not attend yesterday’s gathering. “I feel it was inappropriate for them to put a political spin on what should have been a mourning event,†Stern said. “It really does not show that productive steps are being taken to achieve peace.†Several members of the PSC said that in this case, politics were simply unavoidable...