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Four years ago, A Duke professor named Michael Hardt and an Italian academic named Antonio Negri noticed that the world was changing in weird and radical ways. It was becoming globalized and wired and networked, and Hardt and Negri surmised, not unreasonably, that a weird and radically new political theory was needed to describe it, one that engaged on a global scale. They sketched one out in a book called Empire, and it was a huge hit--The Corrections of the academic season. If you hadn't read it, you pretended...
...show how some of our mores have changed. Consider the casino-based series, which place the viewers' sympathies with management--that is, with mammoth businesses predicated on systematically beating the little guy, one hand at a time. TV once made populist heroes of rascally underdogs like Bo and Luke Duke and con men and cardsharps like Bret Maverick. Today--The Cooler and the Ocean's Eleven remake notwithstanding--we more often root for the overdogs, the entrepreneurs and the security chiefs who use military-grade surveillance technology to protect their shekels from card counters and scammers. "Nobody cheats...
WILLIAM HAWKINS Medical Marketer Medtronic, a medical-device maker based in Minneapolis, Minn., saw net earnings rise 22.5%, to nearly $2 billion, in the past fiscal year, and that's great news for the company's new president and chief operating officer, William Hawkins, 50. Hawkins, an avid Duke University basketball fan, knows his competition; he has also worked for Eli Lilly, Guidant and Johnson & Johnson. The challenge for the biomedical engineer and former head of Medtronic's vascular business will be to keep the company hitting nothing but net. Next up on Hawkins' game plan: overseeing the launch...
Summer is the season, it seems, for hawking history's private treasures. Up for bid this month are knickknacks from the estates of Kate Hepburn and Doris Duke, as well as some 400 items from Barbra Streisand's collection of costumes and memorabilia from her career. And for boat buffs, a New York City auction includes the biggest lot of Titanic remnants ever assembled, plus relics from other sunken ships like the Lusitania and the Andrea Doria...
...DORIS DUKE June...