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Dimming the lights
PARK CITY, Utah -- How's this for a buzz kill? On the opening Saturday of the just-completed Sundance Film Festival, you could have started your day with a screening of The Savages, a harrowing, inconsolably sad drama about two adult siblings (played beautifully by Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman) forced to take care of their aging, abusive father (Philip Bosco). After lunch, you might have caught a documentary about Japanese atrocities in China during World War II, titled Nanking, and then skipped off to see Grace is Gone, in which John Cusack plays a man who can't bring himself to tell his daughters that their mother has just been killed in combat in Iraq. Oh, and then -- assuming you hadn't slashed your wrists by this point -- you could have ended the day with Zoo, Robinson Devor's bizarre, risible documentary about a man in Seattle who died in 2005 after being intimate with a horse.
Elderly Man Gets FBI Visit After Writing Letter
BETHLEHEM, Pa. An elderly man who wrote in a letter to the editor about Saddam Husseins execution that they hanged the wrong man got a visit from Secret Service agents concerned he was threatening President Bush. The letter by Dan Tilli, 81, was published in Mondays edition of The Express-Times of Easton, Pa. It ended with the line, I still believe they hanged the wrong man. Tilli said the statement was not a threat. I didnt say who I couldve meant (Osama) bin Laden, he said Friday. Two Secret Service agents questioned Tilli at his Bethlehem apartment Thursday, briefly searching the place and taking pictures of him, he said. The Secret Service confirmed the encounter. Bob Slama, special agent in charge of the Secret Services Philadelphia office, said it was the agencys duty to investigate.
Sonsini Advised on Apple Options
When Apple Inc. tried to hammer out a new compensation agreement for iconic CEO Steve Jobs in 2001 -- an agreement now being probed by federal prosecutors -- the company called on Larry Sonsini, the lead partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. People with knowledge of the federal probe say the lawyer -- an expert on corporate governance -- was consulted by Apple's board and legal department on a 7.5 million-share grant that's become the core of the criminal probe by the Securities and Exchange Commission and San Francisco U.S. attorney's office. Investigators have focused on the grant because a set of falsified meeting minutes was drawn up to make it appear as though the options were granted at an earlier date -- and a more favorable price -- than when the deal was actually finalized.
Budding entrepreneurs hone skills at global training forum
Young people from around the world will learn what it takes to bring an enterprising idea into reality at an Australian-first global training forum starting on the Sunshine Coast tomorrow. Minister for State Development John Mickel today said he welcomed the 68 students and 22 teaching facilitators from Queensland, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia who had traveled to the region to take part in Enterprisers Australia 2007. Held at the Innovation Centre Sunshine Coast (30 January - 2 February), Enterprisers Australia is designed to give aspiring entrepreneurs the practical, training, as well as support and inspiration, needed to develop a thriving venture. .
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