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...show with a greatest-hits medley that took in three different set changes and a guest appearance by Beth Ditto. And the evening ended with another medley, this one by Paul McCartney, who was there to pick up the Outstanding Contribution to Music award. Looking chipper despite having spent the last week in court wrestling with Heather Mills for his millions, McCartney did what he does best: he entertained. What started with Paul and his ukulele doing Dance Tonight ended with Paul, a piano and the population of London's Earl's Court Arena doing Hey Jude in what...
...MEDIA 80% Percentage of high-definition DVDs sold last year in Sony's Blu-ray format. Because of Sony's dominance, Toshiba this week shelved its competing HD DVD format $2 billion Estimated amount Toshiba spent on HD DVD including efforts to gain film studios' support...
...genuine private-sector rescue, I authorized the Bank of England to take over JMB, close the business, and sort out the mess, which it duly did. Northern Rock is a larger and more complex case, but the principles are the same. Instead, Brown and his Chancellor, Alistair Darling, spent five months unsuccessfully trying to find a private-sector solution, which was never in any genuine sense going to be possible, least of all amid the turmoil of today's financial markets. While the situation deteriorated, the taxpayers' exposure grew, and the bank was allowed to continue its high-risk lending...
Author of more than 75 mysteries, children's books and textbooks, Phyllis Whitney confessed two decades ago, at 85, that she was starting to slow down. "I only write one book a year," she told the Associated Press. Born in Japan to American parents, she spent much of her early life abroad, an experience that informed her stories. Imperiled-but-wily female protagonists and the men they loved featured prominently in her work, but Whitney considered herself more mystery writer than romance novelist. She was named a grand master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1988, its highest honor...
...while it rewired its electronics business, Philips expanded in health care and lighting. The gradual switch to greener lighting and the rising sums being spent on health care for aging populations offered Philips the prospect of steadier growth. Flush with cash from selling unwanted units, Philips has splashed more than $7 billion on lighting and health-care companies, from Genlyte, a U.S. commercial lighting-fixtures firm it bought in November for $2.7 billion--the biggest buy it ever completed--to Lifeline, a Massachusetts-based provider of home medical-alert systems...