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...better digital engine. At the same time, like Microsoft, Netscape Communications and Oracle, the company is struggling to position itself for a panoply of possibilities. Idei doesn't yet have the answers, but he has the nose. This is, after all, a man who loves music and movies, whose desk is piled high with video games ("They keep my reflexes sharp") and who collects cameras...
...Francisco, Dan Falzon said his policy is never to get too high or too low. "The key is just to keep working every day with the same vigor that you had on Day One." Hanging over his desk, to keep the vigor up, is his going-away present from the guys in Boston: a poster of Vermeer's The Concert, the most valuable piece in the biggest, most confounding art heist in American history...
Shrier takes the doctor by the Hippocratic horns--we never, ever lose the conception that the individual on stage has offered a waiting room-full of somber patients dire diagnoses that can only be delivered behind closed doors and thick desk. His tone borders on that of the tirelessly tireless banner-holders of American Progress: those great 50s sci-fi scientists intoning the mysteries of the future today. It's an admirable feat of dedicated characterization, and Shrier is here nothing if not consistent...
...very few things that Stomp seems to have been unable to accomplish. The loud, gritty, percusion-oriented show has been touring the world for the past seven years, breaking box-office records and snapping up awards like flies--an Olivier in London, an Obie and a Drama Desk in New York. Now one of the show's two U.S. touring casts is back in Boston, gearing up for what looks like yet another sell...
...controls. During a break, a frustrated Berger told an aide to buy a present for Liu. When the Chinese official unwrapped it, he found, instead of the traditional vase, a spanking-new Barbie--made in China, of course. Berger razzed him, "I want you to put that on your desk and leave it there until the trade deficit comes down." Later, Chinese officials quietly revealed that they planned to cut average tariffs to 10%. Maybe Barbie should get a Foreign Service appointment...