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...forgiven, upon your arrival at the Burj Al Arab hotel, if you can't believe you're in the Middle East, that forsaken corner of the world that seems doomed to endless war, terrorism and zealotry. The chauffeur of your Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph will collect you at Dubai's palm-studded airport, transport you past the shimmering skyscrapers and finally pull up to a resort that feels a lot more like Las Vegas than Arab sheikdom. Here, in an awesome, sail-shaped edifice as tall as the Eiffel Tower, obsequious staff will conduct you to one of the Burj...
...history of movies in the '90s--or in any room--Weinstein looms large. Biskind portrays Miramax's Brobdingnagian bully as a movie-loving maniac prone to physical violence, verbal attacks and financial shenanigans. Those sins are usually forgiven because his little studio in Manhattan's Tribeca has backed many of the best, most original flicks in recent memory, including Pulp Fiction, The English Patient and Chicago, and he ponied up big time when MGM got cold feet about co-funding Cold Mountain...
...they were against. Longtime peace activists, they marched against the idea of going to war in Iraq. His father Joe says the family was always united in support of Ben, and once the war actually started the family stopped debating it. Joe adds that he has forgiven the person who took his son's life: "They are fighting for their country just like we are fighting for ours...
Pamela Lipson can be forgiven for sounding a bit like the announcer in that classic comedy sketch who praises a new miracle foam: Shimmer is a floor wax! And a dessert topping! Get Lipson going, and the 36-year-old co-founder and president of Imagen will gush about how her product can distinguish faces in a crowd, recommend makeup, diagnose diseases and spot imperfections on a circuit board. What Lipson's six-year-old company--a spin-off of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.)--really does is make software that can find subtle similarities and differences in images...
...trade between nations is to expand exports--a fallacy that was exploded, oh, sometime in the 1830s. The point of free trade is to allow economies to specialize in what they do best. Neither imports nor exports are intrinsically good or bad, though hard-pressed American consumers could be forgiven for wondering what a Commerce Secretary who wants to increase the prices of their shopping baskets at Wal-Mart has been smoking. (The giant retailer expects to buy $15 billion of products from China this year.) If the quota limits Wal-Mart's supply of goods, then the Chinese-made...