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Those family confrontations--when the mighty forces that August gathers on the stage clash, either with words or with action--are the scenes that are hard to shake. Just look at Troy. The way he bashes his soul against other souls is illuminating. I always felt he was one of those characters I wish I had really known. August says that when he writes he leaves some blood on the page. You can't get that stuff out of yourself without hurt. It's not therapy; it's more like revelation. He often talks about the pain of writing...
...Despite the culture clash, the partners hammered out the basic framework for the venture at their first formal meeting, a whirlwind visit by Legend's top executives to AOL's Dulles, Virginia headquarters in June 2000. They decided almost immediately that it would be an equal partnership, according to Legend CEO Yang Yuanqing. (To comply with current China law, Legend will have a 51% stake.) The partners also quickly agreed on a business model that would combine Legend's hardware and AOL's Internet services. "There were problems throughout the negotiations," concedes Yang. "But from the beginning, both sides...
...This potential clash in substance may be accompanied by an even more pronounced clash in style—from the outside, Summers’ famously direct managerial style is ripe to collide with Knowles’ insistence on diplomacy and decorum. Although past Presidential-Dean pairings where both jobs were held by strong personalities have sometimes worked well, the transition may prove to be almost as great an adjustment for Knowles as it will for Summers...
...struggle for the leadership of black America. That struggle began in slavery, when the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass emerged as the first unquestioned spokesman for the African-American agenda. Over the decades, the battle to inherit Douglass's mantle sparked epic struggles, such as the early 20th century clash between the accommodationist Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, the militant founder of the N.A.A.C.P. The most recent chapter played out in the early 1970s, when Jackson himself displaced Martin Luther King Jr.'s closest confidant, Ralph David Abernathy, putting himself on course to become what many blacks wryly call...
Welcome to the new battle of Seattle. The $5 billion Mario Bros. gang and the $23 billion Windows heavyweights, neighbors who never before had occasion to compete, are set to clash over the hearts, minds and $15 billion annual global sales of the video-game industry. It's a pretty even contest: Nintendo may have more than a century of arcade experience, but Microsoft has its bruised post-antitrust trial pride at stake--and nobody ever went broke overestimating Gates' ability to break a new market...