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...Imagine coming into a department, having no idea what it would look like—for me that was a wonderful challenge to be part of a building process,” Higginbotham recalls. “I feel honored to be able to take the helm from a leader such as Skip Gates but also to be part of a new dream...
Amelio, 48, has a plan to plant Lenovo firmly on two feet. The former head of Dell's Asian operations, Amelio took the helm last December, and is launching an ambitious gambit to seize international market share by expanding into every nook of the PC industry. Lenovo is introducing new products, building a complex global-distribution network and splurging on a brand-building campaign. The strategy could turn Lenovo into a far fiercer rival for Dell and HP than stately IBM was, and threatens to intensify the cutthroat competition that is a hallmark of the famously bloodthirsty PC business...
...those of you who remember Woody Allen's mix of real and reel lives in The Purple Rose of Cairo - or if you sometimes think your life is a movie, and wonder what the DVD commentary would sound like - Stranger Than Fiction will strike a familiar chord. But mainly, Helm's script might have been confected to answer a Hollywood mogul's call, "Give me a Charlie Kaufman script, but make it adorable. The movie answers that call. With busy, doesn't-miss-a-trick direction by Marc Forster (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland) and supporting performances, including Maggie Gyllenhaal...
...Zach Helm's clever, calculating script, Harold Crick (Ferrell) is a solitary, hard-working I.R.S. agent who, as he methodically brushes his teeth one morning, hears an authoritative female voice say that he is brushing his teeth. Indeed, everything he does, she describes. And Harold, whose lack of an inner life is his most distinctive feature and saving grace, suddenly is rudderless. "It's not schizophrenia," he patiently explains to a shrink he visits. "It's just a voice talking in my head." He also seeks advice from Jules Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman), an English professor who helps Harold locate...
Khatami was at the country’s helm in 2002 when Iran, along with North Korea and Iraq, was named part of an “axis of evil” by President George W. Bush for pursuing nuclear weapons...