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...Forget what you've heard about Hong Kong-based writer-director Wong Kar-wai: that he's the tall dude in the cool shades who makes superhip movies the international art-house set loves for their languorous rhythms, their gorgeous-garish visual tones, their iconizing of alienation, their pioneering of a sultry cinematic language. Forget too the completion anxiety that attended his new film 2046?four years in the gestating, with scenes still being shot a few weeks ago, and which came so close to missing its slot in the Cannes Film Festival that, for the first time in memory...
...strategies may be similar to those that caused the infamous 1998 collapse of Long Term Capital Management, an investment house saved by a $3.6 billion injection from a collection of the financial world's biggest companies and the intervention of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank. Oh, and don't forget: we'll help ourselves to commissions of up to 20% of your gains, our products are barely regulated, they're not registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and we're not obliged to report publicly where your money is going or how it's doing. Sound risky...
...ever to sweep the 20 km and 50 km. "I needed a huge challenge after Seville," he says, "something to help me forget." In Athens, he'll defend his 50-km title. His race starts Aug. 20. Yes, that's right: the Olympic calendar may say Aug. 27, but for the planning-obsessed Korzeniowski, "it actually starts a week before." The 50-km race is so grueling, he says, that it will punish those who don't prepare fully during that last week, from tracking the weather in preparation for the heat and humidity to making race weight...
...while it’s easy to forget, junk e-mail is itself pretty old as well—it’s been around and stirring up controversy since long before Viagra. Indeed, the first e-mail chain letter was sent across the nascent Internet in 1982 right as current college seniors were being born. A good benchmark for the spread of spam is the size of various lists of potential targets offered for sale over the years—in 1995 lists of around 2 million e-mail addresses could be purchased, but this number skyrocketed...
...Townshend and Daltrey barreled through the songs - Pete windmilling on the guitar, Roger unleashing his trademark screams - as if they were in front of any other audience, say, one composed of people with souls. That, I guess, is what great entertainers do, in popular music or popular TV: they forget, for a while, about the compromises and cynical dealing that keep their business afloat, and occasionally manage to create something wonderful and transcendent. Maybe one of the shows we see this week will do that, maybe not, but it was good to get a reminder that it could happen, before...