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...Karen and Jack were such a great duo. What was the secret of their chemistry...
Dubbing themselves the Graffiti Research Lab and backed by Eyebeam, a not-for-profit dedicated to patent-free open-source technology, Roth and Powderly set their invention loose on the Internet, where it quickly developed a passionate following. Others were soon adding improvements the duo had never thought of, such as timers and on-off switches. A website sprang up selling throwie kits--much to Roth's delight. "We want to get people excited about using public spaces," he says. "And get them excited about art." --By Ta-Nehisi Coates and Carolina A. Miranda...
...knowledge. But the Clintons, especially Bill, still trek around town regularly. Nearly everyone has a story about greeting the charismatic former President (the "nicest guy in the world," according to a manager at the Clintons' local deli, Lange's), being in a store when a Clinton came in (the duo has visited nearly all of Chappaqua's shops and restaurants), or just watching Bill stroll by on one of his frequent walks (always with Secret Service agents alongside and often with the Clinton dog, Seamus). Both Clintons play public figures everywhere they go: gracious, attentive, approachable. That's probably...
...Perlmutter, who had bought control of the distressed outfit the previous year, hired as CEO Peter Cuneo, who had turned around such companies as Remington, Clairol and Black & Decker. Under the duo's guidance, Marvel slowly transformed itself into a conservative but lucrative licensing business. "I always tell people that when you come out of bankruptcy, it's like chemotherapy. You may be cured of cancer, but you're still very weak," says Cuneo, now a Marvel vice chairman. "But then along came Spider...
...must be said, however, that Mann the writer is perhaps a little too taken with detail. Basically, his undercover-cop duo (Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell) are pretending to be high-level, freelance drug smugglers making a deal with a Hispanic cartel that does not think small, and in the first part of his film Mann dawdles them through a labyrinth that's not conventionally menacing. Foxx and Farrell don't have a lot to do in those passages, which permits us to spend plenty of time with Li, who plays the criminal gang's enigmatic financial whiz, and that...