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...financial problem is simple. When Hands bought the 113-year-old British company in August 2007 - just before the credit crunch hit - both he and Citigroup expected he'd be able to finance the $4.2 billion in debt he'd taken on to close the deal. Hands also believed he could quickly turn around EMI's long-struggling record division...
Even before jan. 12, 2010, life was pretty good for Robin Li. The soft-spoken 41-year-old is the co-founder and chief executive of Baidu.com, the dominant search engine in China, the country with the most Internet users in the world. His stake in the company - started in 1999, five years after getting his M.S. from SUNY Buffalo in 1994 - is worth about $2.8 billion now. That makes him the seventh richest man in China, according to the annual rankings in Forbes magazine. Though he's been a computer geek since his undergraduate days at Peking University...
Mourning Sickness In modern movies, when a father and daughter are shown in an affectionate relationship, you know one of them has to die. Thomas Craven, the cop, is walking into his house with his 24-year-old daughter Emma (Bojana Novakovic) when she is gunned down. The official suspicion is that Craven was the target, but he soon learns that she had been engaged in antinuclear espionage at Northmoor, a nearby plant run by the usual oily CEO (Danny Huston). In streamlining the original show's cast of malefactors, which included British and U.S. corporations and intelligence agencies, trade...
...would perpetrate one of the worst war crimes known to have been committed by U.S. forces during the Iraq war, or any war for that matter. On March 12, 2006, Specialist Paul Cortez, Specialist James Barker, Private First Class Jesse Spielman and Private First Class Steven Green raped 14-year-old Abeer Qassim Hamzah Rashid al-Janabi and murdered her, her parents and her 6-year-old sister...
...first time I came across Salinger, I swore in my head for a week. My ninth-grade English teacher assigned us to write fairy tales in Holden’s voice, and she was taken aback by my willingness, sweet little 15-year-old and all, to adopt Holden’s goddam style right down to the goddam word...