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...Cameron was a semisurprise winner as Best Director, besting his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow, who was nominated for The Hurt Locker. That exemplary Iraq war drama, which won most of the critics' awards, earned just $12.7 million in its domestic release and $3.4 million abroad, for a worldwide total of $16.1 million - less than Avatar amassed at the North American box office last night. Not to equate artistic merit with commercial success, but the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences do like their winners to be movies and actors who have been seen. Almost nobody...
...French - a lopsided percentage, given that nearly 40% of the capital in those businesses is owned by foreign investors. And suggesting that the glass ceiling is still very much intact, the number of seats held by women on the CAC 40 boards is less than 10% of the total. (See pictures of Paris expanding...
...most influential corporations - mainly banks and financial firms - giving them considerable influence over the operations of the other companies. Four executives from the French bank BNP Paribas, for example, sit on the boards of 12 other CAC 40 companies, including the environmental-services group Veolia, the oil giant Total and the aerospace consortium EADS. (Read "Christophe de Margerie: Big Oil's Straight Talker...
...anonymous alumnus made a donation in the late fall to make these mini-courses possible, according to McCavana. Total funding of $4,000 was distributed to the eight courses, Woodring says, and students who did not receive funding could still teach a mini-course...
...property markets are a growing piece of the Chinese economy. The total value of property sales in 2009 - $644 billion - equals one-eighth of the total GDP for the year. That growing reliance is not only hard to cut back on, but it creates a further risk, adds Xie. "The Chinese economy is so dependent on property, but property is not a productive asset. It doesn't have a long-term benefit for the country's economic production...