Word: sap
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...Rahman has said his work became "a little repetitive and monotonous" with the spate of commissions that followed Roja. Composing for 50 movie scores and more than 200 songs will sap any man. But each film contains a sprig, often a full bouquet, of musical inspiration. The terminally goofy plastic-surgery movie Vishwavidhaata boasts a ravishing number, Kal Nahin Tha, with the vocalist Sujatha whispering, then warbling her heart out. Taal birthed two instant classics, Ishq Bina and Nahin Samne, both of which Rahman would adopt as signature ballads for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Bombay Dreams...
...buried so deep that even modern science, or science fiction, can't reach it. Love isn't what we remember; it's what we are. For all the memory Dr. M. extracts from Joel, the doctor neglects to remove his patient's heart, and that leads the poor sap right back to his unforgettable inamorata. If it's meant to happen, it will, over and over. You can't erase destiny...
Will that sap the enthusiasm out of the rivalry? Oh, please...
Most baseball-mad kids don't end up playing in the major leagues, but Agassi's prodigious talent wouldn't quit. He started four companies in his 20s and sold one, Top Tier, to SAP for $400 million. He ran a subsidiary, SAP Portals, and developed XApps--new software designed to work with existing systems. In February SAP made Agassi the first non-German member of its board, and he replaced SAP founder Hasso Plattner in the top technologist role...
...auspicious time for Plattner's prodigy to step up to the plate. The $40 billion business-software industry is heading for a shakeout, and SAP has to protect its dominant 35% market share. Agassi's vision? "Training people on computer systems is stupid," he says. "We need to train the systems to work with people." If he can turn that idea into a profitable reality, the punch-card kid might find himself captaining the team. --By Chris Taylor/San Francisco