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...reform can solve the central question bedeviling the agency: how to separate the many who want to tour Disney World from the few who might blow it up. The INS recently detained a Pakistani business analyst, who was trying to fly from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to New York City but didn't have his papers with him. After the traveler's lawyer faxed a copy of his business visa, an INS agent let him board the plane with one final plea: "I hope you are not a terrorist. Don't embarrass...
...Candy Cravings but also Candy Is Dandy. Nearly 40% of the shoppers who visit its 4.2 million sq. ft. are tourists willing to travel hundreds of miles to pay tribute to a giant replica of the shopping centers they have in their hometowns. The Mall of America is the Disney World of shopping...
...investment bank to return their phone calls these days, Whitman and her company are held in such esteem that she has been named to the board of Goldman Sachs. Whitman, 44, joined eBay in 1998 and applied the lessons she learned at such old-economy firms as Hasbro and Disney. She did adopt some New Economy habits. Rather than preside from an office, she sits in a cubicle among her employees. Whitman was once criticized in Silicon Valley for stressing profitability over growth, but many of her detractors have since had to move back in with...
What followed was the great War of the Studios. In 1998, DreamWorks attempted to preempt Disney’s release of the computer-generated A Bug’s Life by turning out their own insect story, Antz, a few months earlier. Disney won the Battle of the Bug, but in 1999 DreamWorks was back with the very Disney-esque animated musical epic The Prince of Egypt. This effort was more successful than Antz, but only by about $10 million; it grossed $101 million (compared with $300+ million for The Lion King...
...studios have given animation their best shot and been crushed by Disney. Warner Brothers and Fox even closed their animation studios. The question, as we look back on the Disney-dominated 90s and ahead to this decade is this: Does Disney have the animation world, including its new technologies and fruitful market, all to itself...