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...Studies (VES) concentrator’s 20-minute video thesis, an original version of the 1990 Sundance Film Festival award-winning “House Party,” launched Hudlin’s successful Hollywood directing career, culminating in his 2005 appointment as president of Black Entertainment Television (BET), a leading black cable network...
...rumors to create a banking scare, so they could profit by "hook or crook" from wagers that the currency or stocks would tumble. In April, Iceland's Financial Supervisory Authority launched an investigation into an unconfirmed story that back in January, hedge-fund managers had hatched a plan to bet against the currency over drinks at a posh Reykjavik...
...military junta has asked people to vote on a constitutional referendum called "discipline-flourishing democracy" [May 19]. It is equally appalling, while people are dying in the wake of the cyclone, to slow the arrival of relief workers. Too bad Burma has no oil. If it did, I'd bet America and its allies would find a way to solve the problem. John C.M. Lee, HONG KONG...
...faced down Microsoft twice, in the personal-financial-management-software business and in the small-business-accounting business. In each of these cases, competitors chose to play it safe and consolidate their winnings rather than double down in a market. They learned the hard way that the only safe bet in business is the one in which a firm continues to play aggressively as the stakes of the game increase...
...that those family ties are "our best tool for helping to foster the beginnings of grassroots democracy" in Cuba, and suggested he would be more willing than the Miami hard-liners to normalize relations with the Castro government. So despite the Hitler analogies, Obama at least seems willing to bet that the peninsula is ready for a more original approach to dealing with the island...