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...movie sets; whatever she danced to was in her head.) But Irving had other aspirations than being the Busby Berkeley of schmutz. A businessman above all, he needed to please his clientele. Some wanted to see Bettie don leather frocks. That was fine with Klaw. He was open to suggestions, so long as there was no nudity; Irving thought that would keep him safe from the feds. And though Bettie posed nude for still photographers, she didn't strip for Klaw. If she did anything with clothes, it was put 'em on (Delightful Betty Dresses...
...were worried about what would happen if they gave control to the users. But hasn't the past decade, and the past five years especially, been about putting the user in control? Even the iPhone, which comes from the controllingest control-freak company of them all, Apple, is an open platform upon which any developer can build applications. Home could definitely use some of that Web 2.0 thinking...
...Home could work too. But Sony has got to lighten up and let its users take a bit of control. Open up the platform and understand that people want to feel as if their Home is their castle - not Sony's mall...
...carry much weight on Capitol Hill. "The White House does not vote in the Senate," said one Senate GOP aide. "It's offensive to many congressional Republicans that they'd choose working with a lame duck than with their colleagues." (Many Democrats counter that the door was always open to the Republican Senators - but that they simply chose not to come to the table...
Wang Shaobi was just 7 years old, growing up dirt poor in southeast China, when the world she would inherit changed forever. It was 30 years ago this month - December, 1978 - when China's leadership decided the time had come for their country to open up its economy and to embrace something akin to capitalism. The monumental shift - China under Mao Zedong had been a centrally planned economic disaster - reflected the growing, behind-the-scenes influence of a man few in the West had then heard of: Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping. China, the ruling Communist Party decreed back then, "required...