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After Sept. 11, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud observed a wedge being driven between his native culture and the United States, he said yesterday in a phone interview from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Educated in the United States at Syracuse University, Alwaleed also has deep financial ties to U.S. companies and said he was shocked and saddened by the Sept. 11 attacks. He tried to donate to the Twin Towers Fund shortly after the attacks, but then-Mayor of New York Rudolph W. Giuliani rejected the donation after Alwaleed issued a statement arguing that...
...world's largest producer of surfboard materials abruptly hung up its board. Without any advance warning, the Clark Foam factory-whose polyurethane foam ?blanks? fill more than 75 percent of all surfboards on the planet-shut its doors after 44 years in business, sending the industry into a market-driven panic. Within seconds, surfboard prices around the country skyrocketed...
...report, 20 percent of online music listeners use these tools at least five days a week, and more than 25 percent of online listeners use the tools between one and four days a week. Slater and McGuire predicted that by 2010, 25 percent of online music transactions will be driven directly by consumer-to-consumer sharing applications...
...wedding at Elmwood was an even smaller affair, with no more than 40 of the couple’s relatives and closest friends. Rabbi Norman Janis, a chaplain at the Harvard Hillel Foundation, presided over the ceremony. Summers and New are both Jewish. The bride and groom were driven to the Fogg in the president’s trademark Lincoln Town Car, its “1636” vanity license plates evoking the founding of Harvard College. Their driver, after parking, also attended the reception. Several people who were inside said the affair was elegant but understated?...
...there are no fairy-tale endings, and no character escapes unscathed. That may challenge audiences in Asia and beyond, but Perhaps Love deserves as wide a following as it can find, not least because it's a harbinger of a time when the global movie industry will be increasingly driven by Chinese tastes and Chinese stories. But that's for tomorrow's film execs to contemplate. Today, Chan's images rattle in the mind: a distraught Lin wading through his midnight-green hotel pool; Nie and Sun in a darkened theater, silhouetted against a screen that has gone as blank...