Bad casting makes 'Paris' a foreign film The News & Observer | In the space of just a few weeks, we have movies starring Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson and John Travolta. It's like the early '90s all over again. | Nostalgia is on Travolta's mind, too. In "From Paris with Love," he plays a violent but chatty CIA agent who, while bullets fly, likes to engage in dial...
Sideshow: 'Angels' tell their reasons for giving Philadelphia Daily News | By Tirdad Derakhshani | Inquirer Staff Writer We should start the day with some hope. | With word from three angels of mercy. | That'd be Katie Couric, Julianna Margulies, and Julianne Moore, who have ganged up to detail for a Ladies' Home Journal ...
City Seeks to Close 15 Day Care Centers in Budget Cut The New York Times | More than a half-dozen gentrified neighborhoods in Brooklyn would lose subsidized day care centers for low-income families under proposed city budget cuts, Bloomberg administration officials said Wednesday. | A list of the 15 day care centers that ...
Orange announce 31 recruits The Examiner Comments SYRACUSE, N.Y. (Map, News) - When Doug Marrone was hired as head football coach at Syracuse, he said one goal was to re-establish the Orange's recruiting tentacles in the metropolitan New York City area. | He's well on the way. | Among the 3...
Mr. Obama's New Budget The New York Times | President Obama got his priorities mostly right in the new $3.8 trillion budget for the fiscal year 2011. It calls for increased spending on education and clean energy technology, shows some restraint on the defense budget, and, most importantly, c...
David Brown, Film and Stage Producer, Dies at 93 The New York Times | David Brown, an urbane New Yorker whose publishing background was the foundation of a producing career in Hollywood, with films like "The Sting," "Jaws," and "The Verdict," and on Broadway, died Monday at home in Manhattan. He was 93. | The cause w...
Near Quake's Epicenter, a City Ready for Business The New York Times | LÉOGÂNE, Haiti - Commerce was thriving at the warrenlike shantytown that has sprung to life on what was once this city's main square. Shoeshines and hairstyles, coal and soap, Casino brand chocolate and Comme Il Faut cigarettes, even new homes cons...
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Exxon's Profit Fell 23% in Fourth Quarter The New York Times | Exxon Mobil, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, said that its profit dropped 23 percent in the fourth quarter, reflecting lower oil prices and weaker demand for fue...
Review: Travolta plays action hero in `Paris' The Boston Globe | In the space of just a few weeks, we have movies starring Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson and John Travolta. It's like the early '90s all over again. | Nostalgia is on Travolta's mind,...
Barnes & Noble Investor Asks to Raise Stake The New York Times | The investor Ronald Burkle is seeking permission from Barnes & Noble to nearly double his stake in the book seller and become its largest shareholder. | Barnes & Noble said in a filing on Monday that Mr. Burkle's investment company, Yucaipa Compani...
Sony Studio Plans To Cut More Jobs The New York Times | Sony Pictures Entertainment, which last year cut 250 jobs, or about 3.5 percent of its workers, said on Monday that it was a planning a new round of job reductions that could total an additional 6.5 percent of its global work force. | The new cuts ...
A Bond Issue at McClatchy The New York Times | The McClatchy Company's prospects are looking up, just a year after investors seemed to expect the newspaper publisher to go bust. The company is marketing $875 million of bonds this week. But investors should be cautious. McClatchy's recent perfor...
Burger King 2Q profit up 13%, revenue rises USA Today Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | at By Emily Fredrix, AP Retail Writer NEW YORK — 's second-quarter profit rose 13% as its value menu, including items like a $1 double cheeseburger, lured cost-conscious eaters into its restaurants. | But the fast-food chain said Thursday that high unemployment continued to drag down per...
Stocks fall on mixed jobs report, debt worries The News & Observer | NEW YORK -- Stock indexes fell Friday following mixed news from the Labor Department's monthly employment report. | The Dow Jones industrial average dipped below the 10,000 line. | Concerns about mounting debt problems for European governments weighed on the market again. Stocks had tumbled around the world Thursday as worries about the global ec...
