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...Though she winced as her former boss savaged those precious films, Schoonmaker was able to practice an editing technique called “negative cutting,” and her expertise made her the obvious choice to save Scorsese’s film. Their mutual trust began then, as did Schoonmaker’s admiration for Scorsese’s work...
...while U.S. authorities have thwarted Gates' subjugation of the PC software business in recent years, Mexico has done precious little to rein in ubiquitous business empires like Slim's - which today accounts for almost half the Mexican stock exchange's $370 billion value and controls a horde of industries ranging from telecom to tobacco. Forbes magazine, in fact, noted that Slim's holdings alone represent about 7% of Mexico's GDP - and that if Gates held a similar share of the U.S. economy, he would be worth $874 billion...
...we’re all basically alone?” “Apocrypha” closes with the instrumental “Yawny at the Apocalypse,” which fades out to the tune of chirping birds. In the end, the disc proves to be something precious, almost as delicate as an “egg.” Each of Birds’ albums is different, deliciously so, and Bird ultimately provides beauty in so many different ways that it’s hard to feel disappointed for long. Still, some may prefer a work...
Love teak furniture but loathe the fact that precious hardwood trees have to be cut down for it? Then consider a piece by Osisu, osisu.com. This small Thai company takes reclaimed teak (as well as discarded plywood, bottle caps and juice cartons) and fashions it into sleek furnishings that sell from its Bangkok head office and outlets in Paris and Los Angeles...
...crew's race-baiting (the Ray Nagin impersonations, the Obama jokes) and at the casual locker-room misogyny (Hillary Clinton's a "bitch," CNN news anchor Paula Zahn is a "wrinkled old prune"), but I told myself that going on the show meant something beyond inflating my precious ego. I wasn't alone. As Frank Rich noted a few years ago, "It's the only show ... that I've been on where you can actually talk in an informed way - not in sound bites." Yeah, what he said...