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...Talks, at least, are proceeding.Word on the street has it that Microsoft is sniffing for deals in China's online market. AOL Time Warner, which publishes TIME, is said to be the furthest along. Sources say it has held intense negotiations with Beijing's politically well-connected Legend Computer about forming a joint venture that would then snap up Netease. Rumors link Microsoft with Sina. (Spokesmen for Microsoft and AOL deny there are any deals in the works.) Amid all the jockeying, Yahoo!'s plans seem the murkiest. International expansion may no longer be a major priority: many of Yahoo...
...parking lot a vivacious woman caught my English accent and nodding her head toward a bearded man standing next to her, inquired if I knew that I was in the presence of a legend?! As it happens, I recognized the figure as '60s/'70s musician Dave Mason from previous encounters. The woman, one Laurie Henry (who described herself as his publicist), then proceeded to give me that purest of Hollywood art forms, the pitch: This parking lot encounter had been preordained. The movie "Traffic" had won four Oscars that night - and here I was standing with...
...past five years, all major cruise lines have striven to make themselves meet-worthy. Leading the pack is Royal Caribbean, which in 1995 introduced Legend of the Seas, its first meeting-intensive ship. Since then, 12 of its fleet of 13 ships have been outfitted for work as well as play. RC's Voyager of the Seas and Explorer of the Seas are 142,000-ton whales that feature a 425-seat conference room, an ice-skating rink that doubles as a trade-show arena, an Internet cafe and a theater with a capacity of 1,362. Other players like...
MUSLIM CHIC Heading to Afghanistan and hoping to blend in with the locals? Better lose the T shirt from Springsteen's Born in the USA tour or the one emblazoned with a Yankees logo. Instead, pick up a paean to local legend Osama bin Laden. Though he is considered a terrorist and all-round pariah in these parts, at home his name moves merchandise...
...play British royalty than a dingy Russian peasant who can barely write. We must forgive him, however, because he is so much fun to watch, and so terribly good at knocking off German officers. The film purports to be based on a true story, and while the legend of the hero Vassily Zaitsev exists, he may have been an invention of Russian propaganda. Joseph Fiennes plays Danilov, an officer whose main responsibility is to write such propaganda to boost the morale of the troops and the Russian people. When these two young men meet each other it is friendship...