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...left-field victory of ?Fahrenheit? told moviegoers that a non-fiction film could make them laugh and cry. It also energized the documentary community, which is reflexively and almost unanimously left-wing. (To my knowledge, there is simply no right-wing political documentary, unless you count ?Triumph of the Will,? Leni Riefenstahl?s hypnotic record of the Sixth Nazi Congress.) Moore had given the film industry?s poor, scrappy cousins a shot at the movie mainstream...
...empires last forever ... The pursuit of cheap labor, for example, can redound on the mighty. But Knight also believes in the eternal return-that Nike's pre-eminence can be restored again and again. Geoff Hollister, a sports consultant who has worked with Knight for 25 years, advises rivals: 'Laugh at him once, and see how long it takes for him to catch up with you.' Swoosh...
...definitely a contradiction. Contradiction is part of who everybody is. I am a real person, and I make my mistakes and I laugh and I cry and I smile and I hate and I love. One song is, I love God, and the next song is, Can you come over? That's how I feel. Sometimes you're in church, and you're looking at the girl's dress right next...
Jamie Dimon, the onetime heir apparent at Citigroup before being ousted in 1998, may yet have the last laugh. Dimon, 48, first engineered a monumental turnaround at Chicago-based Bank One-- pushing out top managers, slashing costs by $1.5 billion and helping to turn a $511 million loss in 2000 into a $3.5 billion annual profit three years later. Then he staged a triumphant return to New York City, when Bank One merged with JPMorgan Chase last year. In 2006 Dimon will become the merged firm's CEO, but he has already begun reshaping the institution in the trademark...
...serious research that she conducts, Thompson still knows how to laugh. “For me,” she says, “humor makes living in the Age of Risk Management much more...