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Tony Eldridge, 40, a senior manager with consultants Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, taught himself to adapt to this changing landscape. "Before, it was all about what you as an individual could achieve and get credit for. Now you have to give up personal ownership--which goes against all my education in business school. But sometimes you have to put down that voice in the back of your head screaming 'Me! Me! Me!' and ask, 'O.K., if I get the recognition, what will be the cost to me?'" The cost is high, Eldridge says, because co-workers get turned...
...began his career as a playwright in the early 1970s but found his work banned. Undeterred, he donned a frowzy dress and created his famous alter ego, Evita Bezuidenhout, the saccharine-sweet wife of a conservative politician - and used her character to lampoon apartheid's absurdities in farces like Adapt or Dye and Skating on Thin Uys. His Evita not only escaped the censors - she soon had the nation eating out of her well-manicured hand. After the end of apartheid, Uys found plenty to satirize in the new "designer democracy." In 1995, he was back onstage with...
...More public investment in GM technology, both by national governments and by international research groups, would certainly help. That way each nation can can adapt and make use of global research if it chooses. Every country that wants to use GM technology also needs to establish a strong bio-safety system to ensure that any risks that these new crops might bring can be handled safely. And part of having an effective bio-safety system means setting up consultations with farmers and consumers so that informed and open debates can be held and communities can make their own choices...
...this year. CURTIS HANSON (L.A. Confidential, Wonder Boys) has signed on to direct. "I saw here an opportunity to make a serious movie about the emotional struggles of contemporary adolescents in this country," says Hanson, who sees things in Slim Shady that others may not yet see. "Helping [Eminem] adapt his talents to the screen is one of the things about this project that excites me." Somewhere, the Insane Clown Posse asks...
...these factors make it more difficult for Latino politicians to play traditional ethnic politics, they have also forced the most successful among them to adapt to the realities of an increasingly multicultural electorate. Former state assembly speaker Antonio Villaraigosa beat 14 other candidates in April's Los Angeles mayoral primary with help from labor, women's groups, environmentalists and the Democratic Party establishment. Villaraigosa made a strong showing among gays, despite the fact that he was running against an openly gay opponent, and among Jews, though there were two Jewish rivals on the ballot. For this week's runoff election...