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...same year Bill became worth $100 billion (on paper) and one year into an epic antitrust suit brought against Microsoft by the U.S. government, they endowed the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with an initial $17 billion. They folded the old foundation into the new one and persuaded Bill Sr. to move out of his basement and into a real office. Patty Stonesifer, a former Microsoft executive who had been running the Gateses' library project, joined him to lead what was suddenly the biggest philanthropy in the country...
...immune from greed when they landed on this continent; and Smith?s aboriginal love story was to have a third character, the tobacco planter John Rolfe (Christian Bale). Malick doesn?t tell this poignant tale so much as he shows it. And what a show! Managing to make an epic film on an indie budget ($35 million), shooting in natural light - and, praise be, on the original Virginia terrain, not in Romania or New Zealand - Malick dramatizes the cultural collision with images of rapturous beauty. It may take a fresh set of eyes to discover this nearly abstract vision...
...Voter attitudes south of the Rio Grande show mounting popular rejection of the free-market reforms and trade agreements long promoted by Washington, but which are seen by Latin Americans as widening the region's epic gap between rich and poor. But in Bolivia, the vote also threatens to tear the country apart. If no candidate wins more than 50% at the polls, a president must be chosen by Congress, where Morales's Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) will likely have less clout than the parties of his more conservative rivals such as Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga, a former President...
...remixes didn’t make the cut.It’s baffling why Beck chose to let Air put out the quasi-interesting “Heaven Hammer” remix of “Missing” instead of Röyksopp’s epic ass-grinder from the special edition. Even the hotly-anticipated new mixes from ex-Unicorns groups Islands and Th’Corn Gangg do little but make Beck’s source material sound sped-up, slowed-down, and silly.The only Beck original is the final cut, “Clap Hands?...
...story has taken, and explained why he and director Ang Lee wanted to make a movie about universal love. Making a gay cowboy movie was never much of a discussion, according to Schamus. “We really wanted to make a big, gooey, epic love story,” he said. “The fact that it’s hot, man-on-man action is a slight twist, but essentially it’s very conservative.” Begun as a 1997 short story in “The New Yorker” written by Annie...