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...pair of hard-rockin' idiot brothers with the eponymous short-in-front-long-in-back haircuts--got the biggest laughs of the upfronts for the title alone. And Fox had, hands down, the most intriguing series ideas: Skin, a Romeo-and-Juliet romance between the daughter of a porn czar and the son of a D.A.; The Ortegas, a sitcom about a family that produces a talk show--recorded live on tape with real celebrities--in its home; Still Life, a family drama narrated by the dead son; and Cracking Up, a dark sitcom about a psychology student studying...
...Brunswick, N.J., publisher that tracks hiring and promotions, named Ford as America's most diverse company. Ford topped a list of about 100 firms that answered a 50-question survey. Diversity Inc. awarded extra points to firms that give top spots to women and minorities and whose diversity czar reports directly to the CEO. Highlights from the top five...
...long been expected given Japan's chronic economic problems, and Resona's plight will only add to fears that the worst is yet to come. Curiously, however, the bank's bailout request may be something of a victory for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's much-maligned financial-services czar, Heizo Takenaka. A Harvard-trained economist, Takenaka took up his current post last fall, vowing to clean up the banking sector, but powerful politicians thwarted his initial reforms. Takenaka retreated, seemingly having made yet another false start in Japan's halfhearted reform attempts. But like The Matrix, he reloaded. Takenaka toned...
...Skin," from ubiquitous producer Jerry Bruckheimer, seems to have the elements one needs for success in TV, or, really, in life: love, conflict and porn. In this self-styled Romeo-and-Juliet story, the son of a district attorney falls in love with the daughter of the adult-entertainment czar his dad is prosecuting. "Wonderfalls," like CBS's "Joan of Arcadia," is about a young woman receiving mysterious messages, except that instead of having God talk to her, she chats with inanimate objects - the eagle on the back of a quarter, the tchotchkes in the souvenir shop she works...
Saddam Hussein's psychotic firstborn, Uday, enjoyed a long, sadistic reign as Iraq's sports czar. As chief of Iraq's National Olympic Committee and its soccer organization, he ordered the torture of athletes who performed below expectations. The national soccer team came in for particularly savage treatment: players had their feet scalded and toenails ripped off for failing to win matches. But on visits to Iraq, investigators from international sporting bodies, notably soccer's FIFA, never found people to testify to such charges - no player dared, for fear of getting far worse. On Saturday, TIME found what...