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...plot strategy. "Irwin has an uncanny ability to get people to charge the mountain for him," says Beth Bronner, senior vice president of marketing at Jim Beam Brands and a longtime Hain Celestial board member. After an earnings disappointment last fall, Simon gathered about 150 employees at his Long Island, N.Y., headquarters for an inspirational screening of Miracle, the feel-good film about the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team's improbable gold-medal victory. Now he has to hope that Hain, and the budding industry it commands, can likewise reach its full potential...
...months Period in which Ascension Island, a British territory in the South Atlantic, received no mail, because of a mix-up that routed post to the Paraguayan capital of Asunci?n instead...
There needed to??be??a??monster. That, in a nutshell, was what J.J. Abrams and his co-creator, Damon Lindelof, decided soon after Lloyd Braun, then ABC's entertainment chairman, gave them this assignment: Write a show about plane-crash castaways on a desert island. The parallel to a certain CBS series was obvious. If Survivor was Gilligan's Island with real people, Lost would be Survivor with fake people. But Abrams, who had raised the spy serial to new heights of cliff-hanging absurdity with Alias, knew that the series would need something extra, something weird, to sustain...
...Abrams and his partner gave the island a deadly (unseen) monster. Fine. A lot of writers might have done that. But with Abrams, there was also a polar bear in the jungle. There was a mad Frenchwoman marooned on the island for 16 years. There was a scary Canadian guy named Ethan living among the crash survivors, although he was not on the plane's manifest. "We were saying from the beginning, 'This is the level of reality we're dealing with,'" says Abrams. "If you're not up for that, you won't like where the show goes...
...This is the right path, and we will continue to walk on it with courage, until our people finally have a normal, complete, progressive, beautiful and great country." CHEN SHUI-BIAN, Taiwan's President, praising the island's recent constitutional reforms in his annual New Year's Day address...