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WHALE RIDER. The Whangara people of New Zealand search for a new tribal leader to follow in the legacy of their ancestor Paikea, who was once saved from drowning by riding on the back of a whale. The would-be heir to the title of chief dies during birth, while his twin sister, Pai, survives. A natural leader, Pai grows up striving to overcome the odds of gender oppression in her tribe and engages in a quest for the title of chief. The performance is moving and well acted, although meanings of some tribal references are lost on Western audiences...
...former heir presumptive at Cisco Systems, Listwin, now 44, was tapped in August 2000 to head up Openwave, a company formed by the merger of Phone.com and Software.com Initially, it was expected to profit from a coming wave of interest in browsing the Internet on the small screens of cell phones. At its peak a year later, Openwave boasted $500 million in annual revenue and a share price of $125. But by mid-2002, Openwave shares had plunged to 43¢--freighted by the telecom bust and by the firm's particular missteps. "This was not a trusted company," says Listwin...
...desperately needed some good news out of Iraq, the special task force hunting for Saddam Hussein turned up, if not their top prize, the next best thing: The dictator's sons. Uday and Qusay, two of Iraq's most notorious tormentors (and, in Qusay's case, his political heir) were holed up in a house in the northern city of Mosul. Helped by the 101st Airborne, the task force stormed the house and, after a fierce firefight that lasted hours, the Pentagon reported that two of the four charred corpses found inside were identified as belonging to Iraq's second...
ARRESTED. ANDREW LUSTER, 39, heir to the Max Factor cosmetics fortune and convicted rapist who fled in January during his trial; by police in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico; after being nabbed by bounty hunters. Convicted and sentenced in absentia to 124 years in prison for drugging and raping three women in his Los Angeles-area home, Luster was deported back to California, where he has begun serving his sentence...
...Denktash was drafted late into the family business. A slimmer version of his father, he studied electrical engineering at the University of Wales, Cardiff. Returning to Cyprus he dabbled in banking (working for his father-in-law) and switched to politics in 1985 after his older brother, Raif, the heir apparent, was killed in a road accident. His generation has a different view of the Cyprus problem: "I did not fight with a gun," he says. "I did not watch friends die beside me. My father is from that generation. I am not." Which is one reason...