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...alone. (Theologically speaking, I guess "The Passion" was also about a father-son relationship, so maybe it's not such a stretch.) But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Before ABC executives announced their new fall schedule at the New Amsterdam theater in New York, they first had to explain to the assembled advertisers why they should have faith ABC would deliver anyone to actually watch their commercials...
...explain why he's worried about cricket's future, Greg Chappell must first hark back to his past. So, over lunch in a Sydney restaurant, he describes the Adelaide backyard where he and his brothers contested their fierce "Tests" - played always, at the insistence of their father, with a hard ball. Other times, with local boys, they'd set up stumps at the park around the corner or at the beach, where they chose between two types of pitch - fast (the hard sand) or a subcontinental turner (the soft stuff). These games could go for hours, like sessions...
...thought war was hard to explain to a child. But compared to this, war is easy. When my daughters saw the pictures flashed on the Today show and wanted to know "Why are there wires attached to that man's hands?", I could not bring myself to explain that this is designed to maim a man's soul: in a culture that sanctifies masculine pride and sexual privacy, you strip him and make him masturbate in front of a mocking female captor, or put him on a leash or pretend you are going to electrocute him. But I did have...
...French are very territorial when it comes to champagne, ski resorts and, yes, pharmaceutical companies, which helps explain why the government strong-armed Sanofi-Synthelabo into sweetening a hostile bid for the Strasbourg-based Aventis--to create a French "national champion" in the pill market--and why the government warned Swiss drugmaker Novartis to stop fishing in the Rhine. Sanofi-Aventis will be the world's third largest pharmaceutical firm, after Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline. But since the merger announcement, Sanofi's shares have tumbled, in part because investors think $66 billion is too high a price for Aventis, whose...
...opportunity on television. Says Serge: "What we saw happening on TV during sport competitions, such as split screen and instant replay, wasn't good enough." Their idea was to layer the positions of two athletes at the same point of, say, a ski race so TV commentators could easily explain and viewers could easily see the differences. Jean-Marie quit his job and took Bergonzoli, a colleague, with him. In 1998 the pair launched Dartfish in an old chocolate factory in Fribourg, a 900-year-old city east of Geneva. Dartfish's technology gained notice when NBC used...