Saturday Interview : By JACK BELL
Christopher J. Russo lives a life of fantasy in the real world.
He founded Fantasy Sports Ventures Inc. in 2006. Before that, he spent 15 years in the media business as the vice president for marketing at NBC, the executive vice president for franchise programming/marketing at New Line Cinema and in […]
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By MIGUEL HELFT
SAN FRANCISCO — The standoff between Microsoft and Yahoo appears to be growing more tense.
A meeting of senior executives from the companies this week to discuss Microsoft’s hostile takeover bid was icy from the start and ended with no progress, people briefed on it said.
Microsoft and Yahoo both declined to comment.
Microsoft remains steadfast […]
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By WARREN E. LEARY
WASHINGTON — A vibration problem with a rocket that is to launch Orion, NASA’s next generation of manned spacecraft, is less severe than previously believed, officials of the agency said Thursday.
Fuller analysis and testing of the problem with the rocket, the Ares I, indicated that the vibrations, termed “thrust oscillations,” would not […]
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By JAMES R. OESTREICH
Retiring? No, Menachem Pressler doesn’t know the meanings of the word. Warm and gregarious as a person and as a musician, he is certainly not shy. And irrepressibly energetic at 84, he shows no intention of giving up his career as a concert pianist and an esteemed teacher at the Indiana University […]
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By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
ROME — In ancient times the Appian Way, which links Rome to the southern city of Brindisi, was known as the regina viarum, the queen of the roads. But these days its crown appears to be tarnished by chronic traffic congestion, vandalism and, some of its guardians grumble, illegal development.
“Look at this!” bristled […]
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By LOUIS UCHITELLE
The nation’s employers eliminated tens of thousands of jobs for the third month in a row, the government reported Friday, and top Democrats immediately called for new measures to help suffering American workers.
After the early-morning report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that 80,000 jobs had disappeared in March, the speaker of the […]
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