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...media titan Rupert Murdoch to buy Dow Jones & Co., publisher of the Wall Street Journal, is big news on numerous fronts. There's the money, of course. He is offering $5 billion for a company whose shares fetched just $3 billion before word of his bid leaked out on May 1. Also important is the signal that he's very serious about his Fox Business Channel, which is due to launch later this year and would get a big boost from the Journal--and Dow Jones--brand...
...morning of April 19, the private-equity firm Apollo Management acquired Realogy--the company behind real estate brokerages Coldwell Banker, Century 21 and ERA. It was not, by modern standards, a huge transaction: the sale price was $8.5 billion, nowhere near the $39 billion that private-equity titan Blackstone Group recently paid for Equity Offices Trust...
...after the crowd—strewn on the floor because all seats were filled—complied. James T. Engell ’73, the chair of the Department of English and American Literature and Language, spoke at the beginning of the event, calling Abrams “a titan who has not been overthrown by the Olympians.” Cogan University Professor Stephen J. Greenblatt introduced Abrams by emphasizing how important his criticism—especially his 1971 book “The Mirror and the Lamp”—was in shaping the work...
What keeps Ferrell on the mainstream side of the Andy Kaufman line is that the audience is rarely the butt of the joke. Even in Talladega Nights--in which he plays a moronic, Southern-accented titan of the NASCAR circuit--the joke isn't that people follow racing or idolize a doofus but that Ricky Bobby is oblivious to everything around him. "It's easy to take a shot at people, set yourself aside from it and say, Hey, look how stupid everybody is," says Will Arnett, the former Arrested Development star who plays Poehler's brother and evil skating...