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...Alive" contained the best advice I have read in years. As a frequent business and personal traveler, I found the information on how to survive a fire or wreck to be of paramount importance. I passed it around the office for my co-workers to read...
...Becker acknowledges, it's difficult to prevent starvation in a country where the paramount leader is unmoved by the suffering of his subjects. The author makes the case that the world should act against Kim, not simply because of his nuclear program, but because of what he's done to his own people. The only way to achieve any meaningful change, Becker asserts, is to remove Kim from power. "With the right political will," he writes, "the world could quickly agree on remedies to disarm a criminal state." Perhaps, but after years of trying, the best diplomatic efforts...
...Viacom, behind chief Sumner Redstone. The two clashed famously, in part over personalities and content--Redstone loving the superstar deal, Karmazin leery of it. According to a source close to Viacom, Karmazin referred to the creative folks as the "arts and crafts people." Viacom's Paramount movie studio earned a reputation for pennypinching during his reign, and after Karmazin left, Paramount executives were encouraged to take more risks on potential blockbusters. "Sumner was always Mr. Content Is King, and that was a little in conflict with Mel's natural tendency to drive quarterly growth," says a source close...
Like many of the tales in August Wilson's plays, this one reverberates across generations. Years later, Paramount was trying to make a movie out of Wilson's play Fences, and Barry Levinson was interested in directing. Wilson thought of his mother when he nixed the idea, insisting that the play--about a former Negro League baseball player struggling to support a family in 1957--must be directed by an African American: "Man, I'm thinking, 'Something is not always better than nothing.' She influenced me in ways like that...
...minded baseball player since Ty Cobb has done better than play with time. He has reached back into it to play with Cobb. It took Pete Rose two decades and more, just a blink and a nod on the eternal baseball schedule, but he has come to both a paramount moment in his game and a place of moment in any enterprise. By the numbers and beyond them, he is what he does. Rose is baseball...