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...It’s great to come in and have the opportunity to make a direct impact on the team’s success,” Dawson said. “But as a running back, you depend greatly on your offensive line and your fullback. It was a great team effort that resulted in our success running the ball. It just so happened that a lot of our success has been highlighted by individual accomplishments...
...after foiling a plot that included plans to set off car bombs next to the Grand Mosque. Such attacks aim to undermine the authority of the Saudi royal family, whose legitimacy derives from its role as the protector of Islam's holiest shrines. "The government sees this as a direct threat to the regime and to stability, and they are confronting it as such," says Gary Grappo, U.S. charge d'affaires in Riyadh...
MAUREEN O'CONNELL Consulting Queen Fresh out of high school, O'Connell, 42, developed her finance talents at a New York City company that sold plants. Her career has since sprouted: she's had CFO stints at Bertelsmann's BMG Direct, Publishers Clearing House and Barnes & Noble. Now Gartner, the world's top IT research and consulting company, has named the Bronx, N.Y., native its president and COO. O'Connell plans to add important new voices to Gartner's analyst reports: clients who actually use the technology being covered...
...most direct way to hedge against the falling dollar is to invest in foreign currencies. But active foreign-exchange trading is a high-wire act. Instead, consider buying CDs that are denominated in major foreign currencies. They're available online at Everbank. One popular option, according to Everbank president Chuck Butler, is the commodity-indexed CD, which tracks the currencies of four major exporting nations: Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. Current interest rate: 4.25%. If the dollar moves up, though, you can lose money in these accounts. So consider this strategy for only a small portion of your...
...refusal to accept the conventional boundaries of his field that encouraged Masao Maruyama, founder and president of Mad House animation studio, to choose him to direct Perfect Blue, a paranoid psycho-thriller about a teen idol dragged through the sleazier realms of Japanese pop culture. The film turned out to be Kon's breakthrough. Until then, he had been making slow but steady progress through the industry, working his way up from being an assistant manga artist to drawing his own manga to directing occasional episodes of animated TV shows. One of these episodes caught Maruyama's eye. "I needed...