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...latest Pixar movie or Star Wars reissue. The DVD format has created a connoisseur class that values taste in title selection, pristine print quality, peerless extras and lavish production. For those collectors, the Chanel of DVD outfits is Criterion, spawned by the pre-eminent '50s art-house distributor Janus Films. From the 350 titles issued thus far in the Criterion Collection, here's a sampling of its classy wares...
...Seventh Seal Ingmar Bergman The art-house film came of age in the late '50s with Janus' release of a dozen or so Bergman movies, particularly this medieval epic about a knight playing chess with Death during the plague years. As gaunt, handsome and stern as the face of its star, Max von Sydow, The Seventh Seal comes with an illuminating commentary by Bergman scholar Peter Cowie and a nifty short about the process of restoring the film...
...first time that Zennstrom has pursued a counterintuitive business model. In 2000 he and Skype co-founder Janus Friis launched Kazaa, a peer-to-peer exchange that allowed users to swap music and videos online. Now Zennstrom is at the vanguard of voice over Internet protocol (VOIP), a technology that lets voice traffic travel over the Internet. Gartner Inc. analyst Katja Ruud estimates that about 100 million people worldwide will use VOIP by 2008. Even telecom giants like AT&T, BT Group and Verizon realize they have to offer VOIP. Zennstrom practices extreme VOIP: free calls and free software...
...practice, of course, Harvard is neither an aristocratic finishing school nor a meritocratic hothouse. Or, to be more precise, it’s both. Indeed, the College often reminds me of Janus, the two-headed god of classical mythology: Harvard constantly looks back to its storied past without ever losing sight of its glittering prospects and lofty ambitions for the future. The resulting blend can be somewhat strange, as anyone who seen tuxedoed students rushing back from House formals to work on physics problem sets can attest...
JILL PAITCHEL Global Investment Chief When Citicorp and Travelers Group merged in 1998, Paitchel, 45, led the effort to combine the companies' product lines for overseas investors. Last month Paitchel moved to Janus Capital Group, where she is running that firm's international operation, which manages $6 billion in assets in mutual funds and private accounts for folks from Taiwan to Milan. Whereas the domestic market is mature, Janus sees growth potential abroad for investments catering to retail and institutional clients, like Latin American pension funds...