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...recently arrived president and ceo of Syncrude, along with a group of 25 handpicked Exxon executives, is sure to introduce plenty of change over the life of a 10-year service contract signed by their parent company. "Many Syncrude managers took a golden handshake rather than deal with Exxon," says a person familiar with the overhaul taking place...
...hope still glimmered at the power plant. Rescuers say the odds of finding survivors are highest during the first "golden 72 hours" after an earthquake. After that, the chances for those still pinned under rubble begin to decline precipitously, because of lack of food and water. Yet shortly after midnight, rescuers pulled the man trapped in the collapsed building, the state-run Xinhua News Service reported. He was identified as Ma Yuanjiang, an executive with the power company. It had been 178 hours - almost seven and a half days - since the quake decimated Yingxiu...
...Davies quotes Chekhov - "The golden moments pass, and leave no trace" - but the director's entire, exemplary career has been a mission to ensure that old moments, golden or grim, will have a prominent place in the museum of our collective memory...
National cinemas have different Golden Ages. For Hong Kong, it was the decade from the mid-'80s to the mid-'90s, when directors like Tsui Hark and John Woo were revitalizing the crime film, and when young Wong Kar-wai was revolutionizing the misty romance. At the time, Hong Kong also had perhaps the world's greatest roster of glamorous stars, and prominent among them were Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, the two Tony Leungs, Jacky Cheung, Carina Lau and Charlie Young. All of them are in Wong's 1994 martial-arts reverie Ashes of Time, which...
...appearing no older than six - lug heavy rocks on woven stretchers and swing pickaxes into the hard earth. Burma's junta has long been considered one of the world's worst human-rights abusers. But the country's generals don't have to see these tiny laborers build a golden temple for their Abode of Kings. That's because the generals are bunkered in another, faraway part of the city, in a vast military zone off-limits to foreign tourists - a sector that doesn't even exist on Burmese maps...