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...MICHAEL JORDAN loves the comeback, whatever the field of endeavor. A month after his wife JUANITA announced she was retiring from their marriage, Jordan is making another try at the union, and the two, above in 1999, have announced they will reconcile. On Jan. 4, Juanita declared their 12-year marriage over and said she wanted sole custody of their three children. Commentators speculated whether the rift might affect Jordan's image and endorsement deals and how much of his estimated $400 million fortune he would have to hand over. Now commentators are wondering whether true love has ruled...
...aware that a great deal of localization work is being requested by small to mid-size companies, not only for international use, but for domestic use to communicate with U.S.-based clients or to train and communicate with non-English-speaking U.S. employees. Translation and localization remain a creative endeavor, one that is hard to accomplish entirely with computers, which would seemingly save money at the risk of quality. There is still no easily accessible computer software that can think and construct a sentence like a human being. --Steven P. Iverson, President Iverson Language Associates Milwaukee...
Don’t get me wrong: FM is a serious journalistic endeavor, all the better for its in-depth, investigative cover pieces. Nonetheless, when Lisa K. Pinsley and I took the helm of the mag, we felt a burning desire to lighten things up. Actually, we—like all uppity, sarcastic FM editors—really just wanted to make fun of other people in public. But it turns out that mocking others (especially those who are probably better than you) is not easy. In fact, quality ridicule takes finesse, friendliness, focus, and a number of other words...
...said she supported Fernandez in that endeavor...
Shallow Hal’s half-hearted attempt at promoting the idea of a love that transcends appearance does little to redeem its constant mistreatment of the overweight and unattractive. Poking fun at issues like body image is a treacherous endeavor, but not an impossible one. Weezer, in this summer’s music video for “Hashpipe,” successfully managed to satirize MTV culture by parodying the short-attention-span hyper-sexuality that so pervades music, movies and television. In the case of the “Hashpipe” video, the subject...