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...that arduous artisanship may matter little to the vast audience awaiting Were-Rabbit. They'll just fall in love with the man who imperils the world and with the dog that saves it. And they'll never realize the amount of sweat it took to give them such an effortlessly funny night at the movies. --Reported by Josh Tyrangiel/Bristol
...latest target, media giant Time Warner (which publishes TIME), is up against as the renowned Wall Street maverick pushes the company to boost its stock price, stalled at about $18. Icahn's prescription is strong (and expensive) medicine: a $20 billion stock buyback and the spin-off of its vast cable operations. Icahn, the Princeton University philosophy major from Queens, N.Y., who staked his earliest ventures with money he won playing poker in the Army, loves taking on the big boys. He won't be bluffed--and he often wins...
...taking on Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons, with his company's vast array of media properties, including CNN, HBO, America Online, Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema, and a current market value of $85 billion, Icahn has chosen his biggest mark yet. Time Warner has been struggling since the disastrous merger in 2000 with AOL, which sent the company's share price plummeting. An Icahn-led group picked up 2.6% of the company, and "a boatload of hedge funds and other short-term players are sitting in the stock," said Patrick McGurn, special counsel at Institutional Shareholder Services, which advises...
...scores of foreign websites (such as those for Amnesty International and numerous news sites); the government has also deployed tens of thousands of Internet police to investigate online crimes, including political offenses. While some tech-savvy surfers can find ways through the firewall and past Web police monitors, the vast majority of China's 100-million online population will search in vain for Mandarin equivalents of the Drudge Report, blog screeds and independent journalism that define free online speech in most of the world. A recent study by Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society concluded that "China...
These discussions, however, will almost always be lacking voices truly representative of poverty. And the vast majority of individuals in the position to exacerbate or alleviate poverty are too far removed from its consequences to empathize. Though many individuals at Harvard have endured economic hardship, or know individuals that have, there are still a great many obstacles in the way of real understanding...