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...Paramount Pictures group, the person on the hot seat is its chairman, Sherry Lansing, 60, who smashed the industry's glass ceiling in 1980 when she became the first woman to head production at a major studio. Lansing is the first to admit that there's no surefire way of predicting the next blockbuster. "Sometimes you can make all of the right decisions, and the movie gods will shine on you. Other times they don't," she says. "Luck is needed in nearly every business, but even more so in this one, where you have to catch the zeitgeist...
...countries, a joint project by the Italian oil company ENI and Libya's state oil producer NOC. Both men praised the prospect of Libyan natural gas flowing to Italy, but it could prove difficult to stop the unwelcome flow of immigrants. Officials in this oil-rich state admit they are not sad to see desperately poor Africans set course for Europe. And if Europeans really want to stop illegal immigration, they argue, they should invest billions in Africa to convince Africans that they have viable economic opportunities at home. Instead, they estimate that more than 1 million Africans now crowd...
...have to admit that things are coming full circle. Consider this: the first telecast sporting event ever was an Ancient Eight baseball game between Princeton and Columbia...
Given the importance of this game, the players are careful not to take the Big Red too lightly, even though they admit that they are going into the game with a lot of confidence...
...spectacular, meant to be experienced rather than interpreted. Built in the style that has by now made Gehry famous, the Disney Hall resembles a huge waterfall of dramatically arching and soaring stainless steel forms, each cascading over and into and through the others. I would be the first to admit that the building was both spectacular and titillating; walking around and through it felt like riding on the most beautiful roller coaster ever built. But as exhilarating as my immediate experience of the building may have been, it was also largely meaningless. The building didn’t stay with...