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...Today, the Razzies are a year-round affair, with a website that attracts more than a million visitors annually with its picks for the worst films of the year as well as the worst movies of the week in theaters and on DVD. Nearly 700 voters - journalists, industry insiders and frequent filmgoers - now vote on the year-end awards. In conjunction with this year's awards show, Encore on Demand Movie Channel has scheduled a month-long tribute to past Razzie winners...
...Chinese New Year is a time to relax with family and spend year-end bonuses. But as the holiday approaches this year, only half of Taiwanese expect to receive any extra cash from their companies. Instead, their employers are telling them to take long vacations. If only they could enjoy them...
...southern Burma. It left over 80,000 dead, nearly 60,000 missing and 20,000 injured. The extent of its destruction is devastating - to the tune of some $4 billion. Despite this, there was not even one small picture of this sorrowful event to be found in TIME's year-end issue. Did the victims not deserve recognition? K.N. Thein, Rangoon
...developments will further complicate matters for many companies struggling to survive in what is arguably the bleakest economic and financial crisis since the Depression. The true scope of the market's toll on pension plans will become apparent in the coming weeks, when companies release fourth-quarter and year-end earnings statements. In conference calls to investors and analysts, top corporate executives are likely to explain how they plan to handle the loss. Many will probably reduce sharply or even eliminate new benefits packages, cut wages and resort to more job cuts to recover the loss. It will also likely...
...groups happen to be gazing into, and the glorification of the chic, well-heeled soirée as an art form," says Marie-Gabriel, who in 2005 co-founded the Opposition Front to the New Year: National Organization Committee, devising the group's name exclusively so that its French acronym, Fonacon, would be homonymous with the phrase "telephone an a__hole." (Its year-end protest slogans are equally risible, including last year's motto, "It Was Better Right Now.") Fonacon and its futile protest are rooted in a bedrock of self-deprecation, echoing France's tradition of iconoclastic comics getting...