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...price of deals and extending the chase to Europe and Asia. It's also prompting firms to buy companies they would have spurned just a few years ago. Retail--a highly competitive sector with low margins--is a case in point, says Christopher Kampe, director at Grant Thornton Corporate Finance. In the past year, Linens 'n Things, Burlington Coat Factory, Petco and the Sports Authority have all been bought...
...Each of these elements alone presents its own intrigue. But together they make for one of the most combustible, and, says Bonnie Thornton Dill, Director of the Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity at the University of Maryland, "recurrent dramas in American history." Dill likens the Duke narrative to the debate surrounding the descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings. "Race, class, gender and sexuality are woven together so tightly here that they cannot be separated," she says. "You cannot understand this by looking at it through a single lens of any one of these dimensions...
...balletic jazz moves, eventually dancing up to him.To assess Berry’s dramatic talent, Blickstead and Dodd asked that she re-enact the highway scene from Monster’s Ball, the film which brought her an Oscar for best actress.Filling in for Billy Bob Thornton was Samuel Gale Rosen ’06, who co-wrote the script for this year’s production.“I’m not just some hitchhiker,” Berry said to him.And not just any Woman of the Year, as the audience and Rosen were soon...
...little-young curiosity. It makes you wonder if, as a youth, Scarlett’s parents took a big strip of sandpaper and ground that voice from a perfect diamond down into a rough-cut masterpiece. It’s seduced the on-screen likes of Billy Bob Thornton, Colin Firth, and the seemingly unseduceable Bill Murray. She uses it again in her latest film, “Match Point,” to charm the fidelity off of a married Irish tennis star. Sure, Scarlett has her other exquisite qualities (bee-stung lips, right-cheek mole, and curves that...
...Manhattan's Supper Club, Angelina Jolie--humanitarian, Oscar winner, erstwhile wearer of a vial of Billy Bob Thornton's blood--is scheduled to speak about Sierra Leone. It's a benefit dinner for Witness, a group that has been chronicling abuses in the war-torn African country--slaughter, rape, the drafting of child soldiers. So, naturally, a swarm of cameras are there to get her take on the big issue of the day: Isn't she, like, totally excited that Brad Pitt has decided to adopt her two kids...