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...have morphed into monstrous slicer-dicer portals offering everything from daily horoscopes to free e-mail, Google does only one thing--search--and does it spectacularly. Whether I'm looking for a home remedy for sinusitis or trying to find a long-lost friend online, it has an uncanny knack for locating what I want...
LENI RIEFENSTAHL has an almost Faustian knack for survival. The infamous German filmmaker, who directed the 1934 Nazi propagandist film Triumph of the Will, weathered World War II and the international ostracism that resulted from her association with the Third Reich. Now 97, she suffered relatively minor injuries last week when a helicopter in which she was riding crashed in the Sudan. She is being treated in Germany for a few broken ribs. Riefenstahl was in Africa to revisit the Nuba tribe, which she photographed during the 1970s, a project that drew criticism for its perceived objectification of tribe members...
...Wynn, 58, the master builder of Vegas and chairman of Mirage Resorts, whose lavish spending on casinos like the $1.6 billion Bellagio has made Mirage about as popular as snake eyes with investors on Wall Street. The Kirk is for Kerkorian, 82, the reclusive Beverly Hills billionaire with a knack for doubling his bets and winning. The rival moguls took center stage when Kerkorian's MGM Grand bid $17 a share, or $3.4 billion, for Mirage, which only the day before had been trad- ing at $10 a share and change...
...knack for computers and business, you've got a shot at providing digital and management consulting, advanced virtual systems, e-commerce, Internet and IT/IS solutions to a diverse international clientele...
...other issues he talked about last week: welfare and tort reform, taxes and education. And he really does have a record of reform on those issues, though his results have been mixed. On matters he cares about, Bush has displayed a clear vision and a knack for getting down in the policy weeds that is wholly at odds with his featherweight image. But on other crucial matters--poverty and hunger, the death penalty, gun violence, health insurance for the poor, pollution--Bush has shown little willingness to lead or even think deeply. And sometimes the policies he puts into place...