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Over the past 18 months, two groups, one representing Silicon Valley, the other Hollywood, have been meeting at trade shows, visiting labs and quietly ! cross-fertilizing. Several prominent executives have jumped ship -- most notably Strauss Zelnick, who quit his job as president of 20th Century Fox Film Corp. this summer to head a video-game company called Crystal Dynamics. This fall dozens of these ventures are at last starting to roll out real products. Among the attractions coming soon to a living-room screen near...
...were really excited about this weekend," said co-captain Jennifer Garcia. "The biggest change for us has simply been the attitude. Last year, if we had gotten down, we would have quit fighting...
Murdoch now plans to quit the acquisition game for awhile. "There's really no company that I want to buy that I can see out there," he says. "Quite honestly, we're not negotiating." He also needed time to get ready for his daughter's wedding, which took place last Friday night...
Washington -- At the State Department, the unhappy souls in the Eastern European Bureau who are assigned to work on Bosnia are nicknamed "Yugo- slaves." So far, three have quit in the past year out of frustration with U.S. policies. The department's embarrassed high command recently held a meeting to head off any more defections. The solution is to at least reduce the physical discomfort involved in standing by at Foggy Bottom while genocide is committed in the Balkans: the Yugo-slaves will get better lighting and more space...
...indecisive way, Garth Brooks has become a sort of Ross Perot of country music. First he suggests he may quit performing. Then he says he's back in. Now, on his new album, In Pieces, Brooks has made one of his worst decisions by recording a misguided anthem titled American Honky-Tonk Bar Association. In this song, over a beat as rambunctious as a mechanical bull, this most favored of country stylists asks listeners to join with the "hardhat, gunrack, achin'-back, over-taxed, flag-wavin' fun-lovin' crowd," especially if they're upset when their "dollar goes...