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Sharpe distinctly turns to the field judge in search of a flag, and finds none. Just a moment before ABC switches cameras, millions of viewers see a flash of yellow on the field. But Sharpe does not. In celebrating a supposed national championship, he has already turned his back to the official...
...like many roommates do, but at the same time, underlying it all, there was an element of innocent physical contact. Toby would always hold me between his chiseled arms when I felt sad, and Mike and I would walk through campus hand in hand on dark nights. A simple flash of my eyes in Toby’s direction at the Red Party told him that I didn’t want to be alone and we converged on the dance floor to dance like seventh grade friends who didn’t have to worry about the adult consequences...
...just another expat's night in Riyadh. He was watching an Antonio Banderas thriller, curled up on the sofa in his home in al-Jadawel, a gated town-house complex in the Saudi Arabian capital. Suddenly the lights died, and the TV zapped off. Schlageter saw a flash and felt a thundering explosion that blew out all his windows. "I grabbed my cell phone, went upstairs to a secure room, called the U.S. embassy and told them we were under attack," he says. A vehicle loaded with explosives had blown up at the gates of the compound...
...members of the company's supervisory board, which must approve it, have voiced opposition. STMicro, under the leadership of Pasquale Pistorio, is taking a different tack. The company, with annual revenues of $6.32 billion, doesn't manufacture drams at all. It focuses instead on logic chips, and increasingly on flash memory cards, used to store pictures taken with a digital camera. Another difference: STMicro has formed partnerships with several key customers, such as mobile phone maker Nokia. This allows the company to involve its customers early on in the development of semiconductors. "This secures a very strong and loyal customer...
...began with bad luck, had a flash of brilliance and was oh-so-close to beautiful...