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...would be allowed to deliver her own concession speech on the final night of the 2008 campaign. (In the end, she wasn't.) Most of the campaign advisers who viewed Palin as untrustworthy and erratic have left McCain's orbit, and his current aides were delighted to apply her star power to their troubled cause. With Palin in the state, they collected e-mail addresses for follow-up contact, raised several hundred thousand dollars and attracted the kind of crowds and media coverage that McCain can no longer bring in on his own. And the Senator continued his conversion from...
...Enter Jha, a former Qualcomm executive who had become a rock star in industry circles. Hired in 2008, Jha was enticed to Motorola with $100 million in performance-contingent bonuses and stock options, making him one of the highest paid U.S. executives that year. "Motorola's [board] had to decide - shut down the business, or find one of the very few people both capable and willing to turn things around," says Avian Securities analyst Matt Thornton. "Someone of Sanjay's caliber had to have incentives to take this...
Hitching Motorola to one horse - even if it's Google - was a risky but necessary move, as the market-leading iPhone taught consumers to increasingly demand usability in addition to cool hardware, Motorola's traditional specialty. "Software is the star now," says Carolina Milanesi, a Gartner analyst. "The choice of Android was one Motorola couldn't postpone without risking falling further behind or never recovering...
...great rock-'n'-roll photographer, not because that was his only subject matter (he also shot jazz greats) but because he embodied the spirit of rock. With his gruff voice, demands for access and stamina to party, Jim, who was found dead March 24 at 74, was a star. He had the ability to upset people with his irascible manner and then charm them all over again...
...Date Night, directed by Shawn Levy of the Night at the Museum franchise, performed slightly above industry expectations, whichever slot it finally occupies. It will finish well ahead of Fey's 2008 star vehicle, Baby Mama, and if the estimates hold, it will have sold about the same amount of first-weekend tickets as Carell's first hit, The 40-Year-Old Virgin. The movie benefited from one of those titles that virtually demands that a couple see it, as when Valentine's Day was released on Valentine's Day weekend. And though Date Night gleaned only a modest...