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...wouldn't appear to be a fantastically smart decision. The iPod Mini was and still is the best-selling MP3 player in the world, and Apple had introduced it only 11 months earlier. Jobs was proposing to fix something that decidedly was not broken. "Not very many companies are bold enough to shoot their best-selling product at the peak of its popularity," Gartner analyst Van Baker says. "That's what Apple just did." And it did that while staring right down the barrels of the holiday retail season...
...nothing else, the elections will change the face of Afghan politics. In a bold initiative that has earned the ire of many of the nation's men, the constitution of Afghanistan, instituted in January 2004, has mandated that at least a quarter of the elected posts be reserved for women?putting the country ahead of Australia, Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. in terms of female representation in government. The names of male and female candidates will appear together on the ballots, but the female candidates with the most votes are guaranteed seats, even if they do worse than their...
...nephew Donald Reisfield says he asked Garbo, just before she died in 1990, if she had ever been happy. Her answer: "Yes." That direct yet enigmatic reply summarizes the Garbo style: the bold statement of her beauty, the daring in her sublime craft, the mystery at the heart of her enduring appeal. --By Richard Corliss
...year-old agency that was already dysfunctional-- lampooned for its color-coded terrorism warning system and maligned for its profligate spending on office parties and management bonuses. But he also inherited the National Response Plan, a 426-page report published last December that DHS heralded as "a bold step forward in bringing unity in our response to disasters and terrorist threats and attacks." Outlining detailed lines of authority in the event of calamity, the plan "ensures the seamless integration of the Federal Government when an incident exceeds local and state capability." The plan failed miserably, as even Chertoff was admitting...
...great, the greatness that made them mad. T.E. Lawrence, who helped the Arabs overthrow the Ottoman Empire only to see their dream betrayed by politicians in Europe, is a figure whose elusive charisma is perfectly captured in screenwriter Robert Bolt's epigrammatic dialogue, in Peter O'Toole's brilliantly bold portrayal and in Lean's images of a vast desert that one small Englishman filled with his idealism and ambition...