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...globally through its mobile gaming network. As more flagships open around the world, shoppers will be able to join a live gaming community by directly competing against scores posted by players at other stores. "Learn to get close to your consumer; it's going to keep you alive," says Cliff Crosbie, director of global retail and trade marketing for Nokia...
...over for dinner. This makeover has led to the Conservatives’ resurgence in the polls. But that’s not enough for some hard-right Tories. The party’s suicidal revolutionaries prefer ideological purity to victory. Together, they want to march lockstep over the electoral cliff again, only further than last time. Armed with the evergreen excuse “we lost last time because we weren’t right-wing enough”—three Euro-skeptic, anti-immigration, tax-cutting campaigns notwithstanding—the deluded would-be martyrs argue...
...Marvel's future remains a cliff-hanger. "It's definitely one of the more--if not the most--difficult companies out there to forecast," says Bear Stearns analyst Glen Reid. In late May, just as Marvel kicked off what may be the greatest test of its powers yet--a slate of 10 independently financed films--the firm stunned investors and Hollywood alike by announcing that Avi Arad, the man behind the Spider-Man and X-Men film franchises, would leave to start his own production company. Not six weeks later, two more key execs departed unexpectedly--Tim Rothwell and Bruno...
...frustrating experience for the UNIFIL officer, but the Israeli forces are in Jibbayn with good reason. A day later, Israeli commandos advance from Jibbayn to the cliff top village of Biyada, a strategic location overlooking the Mediterranean and a huge tract of territory stretching north up the coastline to Tyre and beyond. The move effectively cuts off the Hizballah fighters dug into the hillside around Naqoura two miles to the south. The Hizballah men are now surrounded and unless they can evade the enclosing Israeli troops and escape to the north, they face a grim but certain fate. But hours...
...Daniel Petrocelli, attorney for Lay's co-defendant, former CEO Jeffrey Skilling, says his client was saddened and shaken by Lay's death. "Jeff will miss him dearly," said Petrocelli. Skilling has already lost another close friend to the Enron debacle - vice president Cliff Baxter, who committed suicide in 2002. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal last month, Skilling admitted he had considered suicide himself. Petrocelli refused to comment on the status of Lay's case. "It's inappropriate to be thinking or talking about that right now," Petrocelli told TIME. Petrocelli is continuing to work on Skilling...