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Throughout the ’90s, Ballmer assumed almost every top management position at Microsoft apart from CEO, bringing his traditional energetic style and motivational leadership to all his endeavors...
...Cannes' Asian spirit been broken? Like a dot-com stock, the cachet of Chinese, Japanese and Korean films soared through the '90s. What was once a nonentity became a new wave. Asia had it all: a rigorous art-film movement and?in Hong Kong action films, Indian musicals and Korean romances?a vigorous populist streak. Inevitably, these achievements produced high expectations. Now Asian films are judged by the strictest standards: the ones they set for themselves. So Asia takes a brief break from trendiness, as Cannes discovers new "hot" cinemas in Latin America and the Middle East...
...westerners, Asia meant Japan in the '80s, China in the '90s; these were the prime areas of an outsider's political and cultural interest. But it's a big continent. Asia also means Iran?arguably the most productive of the past decade?and the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan. Who knew that these countries, familiar to CNN viewers mainly as restive neighbors of Afghanistan, had thriving (or even furtive) movie centers? That's a prime function of Cannes: to inform the world of the impulse, and ability, to make good films in strange places. Look around, in programs outside...
...Market’s owner, Greg Carr, who made his fortune investing in high-tech companies in the late ’80s and early ’90s, said he is dedicated to keeping the company in Harvard Square. He had originally hoped to rent a temporary space while building the new theater, but when he found nothing available in the area, he decided to close the company for two years rather than move outside the Square...
...nuns knew about it, the priests knew about it," Tamara Stokes said on local television last week about the alleged abuse of her son, but "no one looked at his plea." Stokes' family left St. Edward. He dropped out of high school and suffered depression. In the mid-'90s he attempted suicide. He was convinced, says his employer Fisher, that people in the church wanted "to make him feel that it was his fault...