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...winner. Above everything else - talent, training, luck - it's tenacity, like that shown at the Australian Open by tennis players Li Na and Zheng Jie. They made history by being the first Chinese, indeed the first Asians, to take half the semifinal places in a Grand Slam singles event. It was irrelevant whether the two would progress further in the tournament - their feat was already a huge achievement in a game long dominated by the West. Now the smart money is on China displaying the same relentlessness to evolve into a women's-tennis power (Chinese men, by contrast, have...
...colossal gamble back in '97. With a $200 million budget, it was, some said, the most expensive picture ever made. (In real dollars, that dubious honor would probably go to the Elizabeth Taylor Cleopatra in 1963.) Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet were not yet established stars. The historical event lacked suspense: whatever else happened, that 1912 ocean liner would sink; there would be no Titanic II. Moreover, the scenario Cameron did invent was a love story, and that would scare off the guys. (See more about Avatar on Techland.com...
...World Cup this June and July, when hundreds of millions of soccer fans will be focused on the planet's most popular sport. At the same time, June 26-28, Cape Town will also be the site of the first-ever FORTUNE/TIME/CNN Global Forum, a three-day event bringing together FORTUNE 500 CEOs, world leaders and members of the TIME 100 for a conference on what we're calling the New Global Opportunity. This is the idea that global economic power is shifting to the developing world--to Africa and the Middle East, as well as to Asia--and that...
FORTUNE has traditionally been the sole host of the Global Forum, but this year, for the first time, TIME and CNN are principal partners in what will become a regular event. All three organizations will guide and contribute to the discussions as well as cover them online, in print and on air. Topics will range from the future of microfinance to business strategies for emerging markets to breakthroughs in science and health. Michael Elliott, TIME's international editor, has been steering the content and ideas for the forum from our end. As he says, "We've given the conference...
...roads, stadiums and hotels have been built in Cape Town and other parts of South Africa for the World Cup. "The rainbow nation," as Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls it, has pulled out all the stops to be ready for the big event. I have a long personal connection to South Africa, having written one book about the country, and then, in the 1990s, I had the great privilege of working with Nelson Mandela on his memoirs. I'm looking forward to being in Cape Town for both the Global Forum and the World Cup, which we will cover with...