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...nearing power parity. Pascal once nurtured such films as A League of Their Own and Little Women (both with female directors). Last year her big winners were the action films Spider-Man and XXX. That's not a change of heart, just a coincidence. "Recently Sherry Lansing [at Paramount] and Nina Jacobson [Disney] and Stacey Snider [Universal] have had a lot of luck with films featuring female protagonists," says Pascal. "But we all make movies we believe can be commercial." Lansing adds a caveat: "You can't help being influenced by what you observe in your own life...
...While "Young Giant Yao," as the Chinese lovingly call their paramount sports hero, contributes a stunning rookie season to the Houston Rockets, McClintock is expected to reciprocate. Last season, with Yao at center, the Sharks won 23 of 24 league games, earning their first CBA championship. Anything less than commensurate dominance will be considered a failure and a loss of face for McClintock. At the market everybody seems to know his name, perhaps because every Sharks home game is aired on television. So are most of Yao's games in Houston, beamed live at 9 a.m. Shanghai time from...
Faculty members on the committee acknowledged these concerns, and noted that if students are expected to select their courses before they’ve had a chance to “shop” them, the importance of course websites will become paramount...
Welcome to Wal-Mart in China, where the late Sam Walton has a new image: the Mao of retailing. There, as in Walton's home state of Arkansas, having the right merchandise is paramount. So the store in Shenzhen, just north of Hong Kong, is crowded with tanks of crabs, fish, frogs and shrimp, which can be taken home wiggling or be expertly gutted and cleaned on the spot...
...become a great leader. And by the way, would you like us to skin that frog for you? Welcome to Wal-Mart in China, where the late Sam Walton has a new image: the Mao of retailing. And where, as in Arkansas, stocking exactly the right merchandise is still paramount. So the store in Shenzhen, just north of Hong Kong, is crowded with tanks of crabs, fish, frogs and shrimp, which can be taken home wiggling or be expertly gutted and cleaned on the spot. Wal-Mart's push into China - and Brazil and Britain and Germany and deeper into...