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...hottest ticket in Belgrade is for a movie called Knife, a dramatic slice of the Yugoslav national theme--ethnic anguish. Serbs are packing theaters to see it for another reason as well. It is based on a novel by Vuk Draskovic, who for years has been dramatic himself in public life as a journalist, dissident and rival to President Slobodan Milosevic. The film's plot concerns a young man brought up by a Muslim woman. Muslim boy meets Serbian girl; boy loses girl because both families object. Later, he discovers he is a Serb. The message, says Draskovic...
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...more wishing: last week UPS, which is based in Atlanta, said it will soon sell the public a 10% stake in what could be the biggest initial public offering ever ($4 billion or so) and the hottest in recent memory. CEO James Kelly says it's all about flexibility. Publicly traded shares will give him a currency to make acquisitions and compete better...
...first, the 9 a.m. watering ritual struck me as odd, only because even in my native Boston suburb, where water is plentiful, we have rules prohibiting midday plant watering during the hottest months. But as my summer in Jerusalem and the Middle East continues, I have become increasingly attuned to drinking, washing, watering, swimming, cleaning and flushing--anything that involves the precious molecule, H2O. Water availability and attitudes towards this natural resource are subtle yet omnipresent symbols of the different worlds which coexist here, as well as a source of conflict between them...
...once quiet company has become the very visible backbone to every communications network in the world. Cisco, led by John Chambers, dominates all the tough science behind the movement of information. When you think of voice, data, bandwidth, telephony and the Internet--all the buzz words behind today's hottest stocks--you invariably come back to Cisco, which is the go-to guy behind the equipment that makes this stuff work. Dot.com companies are loaded with Cisco's products. The company is held in awe by Silicon Valley and Wall Street for its tech expertise and its financial acumen...