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...film is the main focus of the archive, which has about 9000 prints in its collection. Gardner, who was a non-fiction film-maker, ensured that the collection was extremely strong in its non-fiction films...
Dell, the computer maker, hacked 6,000 of its 40,000 jobs over the past year. During that period, Dell has grown its revenues, profits and market share--thanks in part to the lower prices it could offer because of shrunken payrolls. "A lot of us are unhappy, but what are we going to do--go somewhere else?" says a longtime employee of the company, which is based in Austin, Texas. The computer industry ranks second after telecommunications in layoffs this year, according to Challenger, and that limits disgruntled workers' options...
...types reviled by Marx for "sucking living labor"?to become Party members and promised financial reforms providing venture capital to entrepreneurs. For the first time, the Party named a businessman as an alternate member of its Central Committee: Zhang Ruimin, CEO of Haier, China's most successful refrigerator maker. "The Party has changed its colors," says Jean-Pierre Cabestan, director of the Hong Kong-based French Center for Research on Contemporary China. "It doesn't care about ordinary people, it cares only about the ?lite...
...Party goes about celebrating itself, few people around here can muster much interest. A few blocks away, the Daguanlou cinema presents the film CEO, a docudrama about refrigerator-maker Haier's aggressive move into the U.S. market. The Party forced movie houses to carry it as part of a nationalistic film festival pegged to the congress. In one showing the evening before the congress opened, a saintly Haier manager breaks off negotiations with a rapacious American who sneers that he'll "buy flowers for the graves" of his Chinese competitors. As the scene ends halfway through the screening, the entire...
...currently in federal custody, John Ashcroft will likely have final say over where Muhammad and Malvo will be tried first. They can be tried more than once and sentenced to death in more than one jurisdiction, but the first trial will be the newsmaker - and career-maker - while the later trials will fade into the background. The first judgment will also be the first to be carried out; a quick death sentence would render following trials moot...