Harold Sipe's Blog, page 696

"Time Warner Inc will eventually sell the Time Inc magazine unit and could buy holdings in its core..."

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Time Warner Inc will eventually sell the Time Inc magazine unit and could buy holdings in its core entertainment category, Gordon Crawford, managing director of its largest shareholder, said during a presentation this week.

"Time Warner just spun off their cable division, they are going to sell their print division, they are going to spin off AOL and they're just going to be Warner Brothers, HBO and the Turner Networks," said Crawford, managing director of The Capital Group.

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Nat Geo Games: Mystery of Cleopatra screenshot.

Nat Geo Games: Mystery of Cleopatra screenshot.

Nat Geo Games: Mystery of Cleopatra screenshot.

Nat Geo Games: Mystery of Cleopatra screenshot.

Nat Geo Games: Mystery of Cleopatra screenshot.

Nat Geo Games: Mystery of Cleopatra screenshot.

"After teaming up on Lost City of Z, Merscom and National Geographic Games are gearing up to release..."

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After teaming up on Lost City of Z, Merscom and National Geographic Games are gearing up to release Nat Geo Games: Mystery of Cleopatra, a hidden object adventure starring the famous Egyptian queen.

The reign of Cleopatra is threatened by political intrigue from Rome as hostilities continue to grow between the Queen's lover Marc Antony and Julius Caesar's successor in Rome, Octavius. A mysterious murder and a break-in at the royal palace have prompted Cleopatra to dispatch her most trusted a...

"The poll suggested that even a majority of Democrats, 51 percent, believes that the White House is..."

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The poll suggested that even a majority of Democrats, 51 percent, believes that the White House is meddling in their state's affairs. More than three quarters of Republicans questioned and nearly two thirds of Independents agreed.

The survey of New York voters was conducted Tuesday, a day after the White House refused to confirm or deny a report that President Barack Obama urged Paterson not to seek a full term in 2010.

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"Despite a personal phone call from President Obama urging him to do so, former Virginia governor..."

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Despite a personal phone call from President Obama urging him to do so, former Virginia governor Douglas Wilder said Thursday he will not endorse his fellow Democrat Creigh Deeds in this year's gubernatorial race.

Pointing to Deeds' support for gun rights and his willingness to raise taxes, Wilder wrote in an online column that he plans to keep his powder dry.

"The question before me is whether I support the Democratic candidate's position in addressing these issues," Wilder wrote on the...

"I was noticing that DC seems to have based one of its latest crossovers [Blackest Night] in Green..."

"I was noticing that DC seems to have based one of its latest crossovers [Blackest Night:] in Green Lantern based on a couple of eight-page stories that I did 25 or 30 years ago. I would have thought that would seem kind of desperate and humiliating, When I have said in interviews that it doesn't look like the American comic book industry has had an idea of its own in the past 20 or 30 years, I was just being mean. I didn't expect the companies concerned to more or less say, "Yeah, he's right....

"When I grew up in publishing in the 1970s, the process and the tools were relatively simple...."

"When I grew up in publishing in the 1970s, the process and the tools were relatively simple. Marketing worked like this: whatever book that Doubleday Bookstore chose to feature in its Fifth Avenue store window (now Prada) usually became a best seller. The Book of the Month Club judges — the Simon Cowells of their day — selected what they considered the very best. We were a small community of authors, editors and agents, and we were on fire."

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"In a testy exchange on the ABC's "This Week" broadcast Sunday, Obama rejected the..."

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In a testy exchange on the ABC's "This Week" broadcast Sunday, Obama rejected the assertion that forcing people to obtain coverage would violate his campaign pledge against raising taxes on middle-class Americans.

"For us to say you have to take responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase," Obama said in response to persistent questioning, later adding: "Nobody considers that a tax increase."

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