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...services. Ardeshir Cowasjee, an irascible millionaire who wears silk pajamas and writes a weekly column for Dawn in which he tracks corruption to the highest places, vows to stay put, as does sociologist and city planner Arif Hassan who campaigns to save the few remaining buildings from Karachi's regal colonial past. Roland De Souza, whose organization SHERRI fights against illegal land developers whom he says are often in cahoots with city nabobs and some military officers, also insists he will always call Karachi his home. They, along with many other die-hard citizens, find that Karachi possesses a dynamism...
...founder and former bootlegger Samuel Bronfman, Edgar Jr. began his career writing songs performed by Dionne Warwick and Ashford and Simpson and producing small movies. Pulled into the family business in 1982 by his father and made CEO in 1994, he scored wins by pushing premium brands like Chivas Regal and Absolut, and buying and selling Tropicana for a juicy profit. But Hollywood continued to beckon. He dumped the company's safe, lucrative stake in chemical giant DuPont to buy Universal Studios' parent MCA in 1995 and recording company PolyGram...
DIED. DAME WENDY HILLER, 90, eminent British stage star and Oscar-winning film actress; in London. A regal woman with a rich voice, Hiller was George Bernard Shaw's leading lady, first as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion and then, most memorably, in Major Barbara. Her aristocratic bearing served her well as a tourist in Sidney Lumet's Murder on the Orient Express and as the elegant widow in the London stage version of Driving Miss Daisy...
...June 10, 2002, Nowinski made his professional debut on “Monday Night Raw,” leaping out of the stands to toss sermonizing Briton William Regal a set of brass knuckles to aid him in his victory...
Moviegoers are used to seeing ads as they settle into their seats, but Regal CineMedia, based in Centennial, Colo., has taken things to a new level. It is distributing a 20-minute block of digital video with short films and commercials designed especially for theaters from companies like Coca-Cola and Cingular Wireless. Unlike their ads on TV, these are often mini-narratives with plots that have a beginning, a middle and an end. Regal's parent firm, the largest theater operator in the U.S., hopes to have its preshow on 4,500 screens in 375 theaters...