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...frontiers previously left unexplored. Many of its comics now arrive from cyberspace, and the amount of interactive features and user-created content on its website increases daily. Marvel is also exporting its characters. In Japan, Spider-Man is a 4-ft. version of himself. In India, he exchanges his blue-and-red suit for more native garb. "Our strategy is to find best-in-class partners in those respective parts of the world and use their expertise and cultural knowledge," said Rothwell before exiting Marvel in late July. "We allow our characters to transform for the local culture...
...those who don't savor Ferrell's brand of comic bravura, there are exchanges like this, in which Ricky Bobby - who bleeds red, white and blue while not chugging beer - tries to lap Jean Girard (Sacha Cohen), the gay Frenchman who sips espresso while racing his car, sponsored by Perrier...
...scan the cabin for familiar faces. The 50-odd passengers include the usual suspects--Western "security consultants" in faux fatigues, Iraqi officials in dark suits. And some surprises, like the three women in white Indian saris with blue borders. The nuns from the Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa's order, are a comforting sight. One of them, Sister Benedetta, kindly gives me a laminated picture of the soon-to-be saint and a genuine relic--a microchip-size piece of Teresa's sari. A lapsed Hindu, I'm nonetheless grateful for any and all gifts that purport to holiness; somewhere...
...Freeman, chief equity strategist at brokerage A.G. Edwards. He's leaning away from the stocks of small companies, which tend to do best early in a recovery and have had a long run of superior returns. He's also underplaying boom-bust industrial and commodity stocks in favor of blue-chip steady growers like health-care (Lilly) and consumer products (Pepsico, Procter & Gamble...
...customer service and support, supervising more than 3,000 people worldwide. "Coming out was really frightening, to be honest," she admits. "I had never done anything like that in my life." She feared that her credibility with colleagues would suffer. Martin, now the vice president of corporate marketing for Blue Shield of California, says the reaction from her Kodak staff was "very, very positive and kind. One woman said that I was the first lesbian she had ever met. We worked on it, and it turned out fine...