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...Oscars is the oldest media awards ceremony, and the prototype for most if its successors. But it’s an improbable television institution, in terms of both its origins and—to put it simply—just how little it has to do with television...
...response in Athens was widespread outrage. A daily newspaper, Eleftheros Typos, retaliated with its own doctored photograph depicting the golden statue atop Berlin's Column of Victory holding up a swastika. On Friday, Greece's oldest consumer group called for a boycott of German products. See pictures of the global financial crisis...
Passing the buck is one of the oldest and most often used traditions of democracy. At the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland last January, admonishment for bankers on one hand and praise for President Obama on the other were abundant. European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet applauded the Obama administration’s intervention in the U.S. banking system and blamed bankers for “generating the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression...
...Hudson's Bay Co., a 339-year-old retailer that is the oldest in North America, signed a sponsorship deal with the Canadian Olympic Committee through the 2012 Olympics. Hudson's Bay owns 92 Bay department stores in Canada, the Canadian general-merchandise chain Zellers and the Lord & Taylor retail chain in the U.S. Jeffrey Sherman, who was installed as CEO in September 2008, after Hudson's Bay was bought by Connecticut-based private-equity firm NRDC Equity Partners, wanted to use the Vancouver Olympics as a platform to reconnect the company with its Canadian heritage. He gave his design...
...pain severe enough to interfere with daily life, figuring out which pain medications work best - and which are safest - is of crucial interest. That's why researchers have recently been taking a closer look at the class of drugs called opioids, which includes codeine, morphine and methadone - medicine's oldest and most powerful pain medications...