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...shabby, multiethnic west London shopping mall, robed men sit placidly at a stall offering Islamist pamphlets and videos on Shari'a law or jihad in Chechnya. They hope a black Islamic flag and a display of postcard-size stickers advertising a conference on Sept. 11 will attract the curious. On closer inspection, it is clear the conference's message will be anything but passive. The stickers at the al-Muhajiroun group's stall depict THE MAGNIFICENT 19, a lineup of the 9/11 hijackers set against New York City's burning Twin Towers and a smiling Osama bin Laden...
...instead award stock grants to its 50,000 employees reflects the same phenomenon: fear of a brain drain. Microsoft is maturing into a slower-growth company and must retain its "institution builders," says Ed Lawler, a business professor at the University of Southern California. "The company needs to attract more people who aren't as risk oriented." A recently hired Microsoft techie says getting restricted stock (with cash value) will encourage him to stay: "People like me who suffered through the dot bomb don't care as much about options...
...sport is also starting in Singapore, where the U2 Can gym - a converted chicken shed - recently bought a boxing ring and has begun to offer serious training. Among the instructors: an ex-head boxing coach for the Singapore Army. The Real Fight Club in London is beginning to attract women. "I get a real buzz out of making my films, but that's a slow burn," says Ann Parisio, a documentary filmmaker who boxed in the first women's fight in London in June. "Boxing is so physical; so immediate. It's such a rush." It's also slightly watered...
...Club was born. In the beginning, Lacey says he got maybe one new member per month. Now he claims six a day from around the U.K. The fights have grown from occasional to nearly every month, and are held at two kinds of venues: places like York Hall, which attract serious fight fans, and plush London hotels, which attract the dinner-jacket crowd and give a portion of the proceeds to charity. To join, men - there are still only a handful of women - undergo a physical ("like something out of the army," says Wade) and pay €140, which doesn...
...Kitagawa incorporates in her scripts conversations and events from her own life. Bouncing a small rubber ball out of the window, as Minami and Sena (Takuya Kimura) do in Long Vacation, for instance, is what she and her brother used to do at home. "Some writers just write to attract an audience because they think the content will appeal and not because they're personally connected to the material," says the 41-year-old mother of one. "But in my case, every drama comes from...