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...launched herself in the U.S. on the back of a book about Maria Callas (her third of 12) and a few key friends. Pretty soon, almost virally, she knew everybody, was marrying an oil millionaire (with Barbara Walters for a bridesmaid) and stumping for the Republicans. Almost as fast, she was divorcing said millionaire, who turned out to be bisexual, and becoming a Democratic champion. In 2003 she ran for governor of California but withdrew after it was revealed that she had paid only $771 in state taxes for the previous two years. She was pilloried for her connection...
...some symbolic action. One suggestion: an agreement that every firm receiving taxpayers' money should pay its employees the same as other public-sector workers, such as teachers. That would assuage public fury, and provide an incentive for the banks and insurers in question to sort out their problems fast...
...Beverly Hills company called Real D took the lead on the theater side. It leases out a kind of digital shutter system that sits in front of digital projectors, alternating the two views of each frame 144 times per sec.--fast enough to achieve stereovision. The new system uses polarization, rather than color-coding. Gone are the completely cheesy cardboard glasses, replaced with slightly less cheesy disposable plastic-frame glasses that have gray lenses. "Someday," predicts Katzenberg, "people will buy their own movie glasses, which they'll take to the movies--like people have their own tennis rackets...
...high level.”While the injured twin proves at a loss for words to describe his season-ending accomplishments, Bill knows his brother well enough to explain the inspiring effort.“I think it was just the sheer will of wanting to swim fast,” Bill says. “It was his senior year and just determination through all the hard work he put in the last 18 years.”Neither twin plans to continue swimming competitively following graduation, and the Winthrop roommates and fellow Organismic and Evolutionary Biology concentrators will...
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