Hollywood studios now understand that fans are not content to sit and passively absorb stories, and that they can wreck a film's prospects if affronted.
Now history is repeating itself as one technology firm after another piles into the fledgling market for touch-screen “tablet” computers, which are set to disrupt the computing industry.
Shakespeare was the first to document the now familiar phrase the world is your oyster and this seems not to relate to any bone hardness of life, nor delicacy for your eating.
The Party of Lincoln has almost entirely lost the allegiance of the African-American community to the point where the historical reasons for this alliance seem dusty and irrelevant.