Archive for August, 2011
‘Phantom’ to bid farewell to original cast member
NEW YORK (AP) — Saturday night’s performance of “The Phantom of the Opera” on Broadway will be perhaps most memorable for someone who’s seen the show a lot. It will be the last one for actor George Lee Andrews, who will have wrapped up his 9,382nd show over 23 years. The show helped him capture the Guinness World Records title for the most performances in the same Broadway show
Even SEC teams sometimes lose battle with TVs
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Even the mighty Southeastern Conference is working harder to coax fans out of their living rooms and into stadiums.
Exxon-Russia oil deal unlikely to raise concerns
NEW YORK (AP) — An unprecedented deal that gives Russia’s state-controlled oil company part-ownership of U.S. oil fields is unlikely to be scuttled by political or national security concerns for a simple reason: Russia doesn’t need the oil. In the deal between ExxonMobil and Rosneft, announced Tuesday, Exxon will spend $3.2 billion to help Rosneft explore offshore oil fields in the Russian Arctic and elsewhere in Russia
Investors are down in August, and jittery as ever
NEW YORK (AP) — For investors, August was one for the record books – but not in a good way. Hurricane Irene didn’t shut down stock exchanges, Europeans banks didn’t collapse and stocks narrowly avoided dropping into bear market territory.
Kerr and Mahan win Begay Challenge
VERONA, N.Y. (AP) — Tiger Woods recoiled with a big smile. “Oh Lord
Report: 25 firms paid more in CEO pay than taxes
Twenty-five of the 100 largest U.S. corporations paid their chief executives more than they paid the government in federal income taxes last year, according to a report released Wednesday.
