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...from it. Rottenberg's principled stance has enabled Endeavor to excel in a new kind of charitable role, that of "venture catalyst." She and entrepreneur Peter Kellner co-founded Endeavor four years ago to nurture entrepreneurs in Latin America's emerging markets. That doesn't mean simply writing checks with lots of zeros. In fact, the organization gives no direct funding to the regional airline, the gourmet-cookie company and the 62 other firms it fosters in Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Rather, it provides M.B.A.s as consultants and organizes management workshops and research missions to places where the money...
...could come to the attention of state agencies while attending a mosque or Islamic meetings," said a police official. The run-down al-Quds mosque, where the terrorists worshiped, didn?t set off any alarm bells, although Bahaji had come under surveillance briefly in 1998. A Hamburg-based Syrian entrepreneur, Mamoun Darkanzli, who had ties to a bin Laden money man, also attended the mosque without police notice...
...town barber who manages to remain taciturn even as the film’s narrator. Instead of talking, he observes and listens. In this way, he learns that his wife, Doris (Frances McDormand) is having an affair with her boss, Big Dave (James Gandolfini). And by listening to an entrepreneur (Jon Polito) seeking funding for a dry cleaning venture, Ed decides to break out of his hair-cutting rut and put up the money...
...actors act out stereotypes as directed. On the overacting side of the spectrum sit Michael Badalucco as Doris’ portly dolt of a brother and Polito as the comical entrepreneur. Thornton, on the other hand, is so dry that he makes Clint Eastwood looks like Richard Simmons, and McDormand is positively wasted as a dull pawn of Ed’s and the Coens’ plottings. Gandolfini, never better than when flaunting a corker of a malicious smile, lingers securely in the middle of the scale. Tony Shalhoub makes the film’s best showing...
Debuting as the hottest handheld electronic device since Tamaguchi, Gay Raydar, a hand held buzzer that alerts its wearer when another Gay Radar wearer is close by, is all the rage in California. Entrepreneur Michael Borer has tagged the item a must have in an effort to take anonymous venues for meeting other gays out of the chat rooms and onto the street. Gay men, and even lesbians, concedes Borer, will be able to carry a personalized detector of other gay people also carrying the device within fifty feet...