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...eventual adoption of a Mac-style graphical user interface with the release of Windows 95, the damage had been done to Apple. By 1997, the company was in deep crisis. Douglas and I got used to the gloating sympathy of exultant PC users. "You'll soon be getting your spare parts and upgrades from hobbyist outlets and mail order," they chuckled. The specialist and business magazines agreed...
...famous black turtleneck sweater and blue Levi's 501 jeans without which I would have cried, "Impostor!" Recent weight loss from his liver transplant has imparted a delicacy that reminds me, I can't think why, of the actor William Hurt. We meet in a conference room. On every spare shelf and ledge, at least a dozen iMacs are placed, each one playing a family slide show. Jobs leans back on his chair, feet up on the table, a welcoming grin on his face. My first question is a nervous babble that lasts five minutes. He listens with patient amusement...
After moving to New York and graduating from Barnard College, she studied with Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham before beginning to create dances for her own troupe. Many were spare, experimental works (including The One Hundreds, which begins with two dancers performing 100 different moves of precisely 11 seconds each and ends with 100 people doing all of them at the same time). But she also choreographed pieces to the music of Bix Beiderbecke, Fats Waller and Jelly Roll Morton. When she was working on Deuce Coupe for the Joffrey Ballet, some company members refused to perform it. "They were...
...exacerbated by glaring income inequality, financial hardship is thought to be the root cause of such tragedies. Two years ago, a study co-authored by the University of Hong Kong and the University of Macau found that a deranged sense of compassion was common - parents killed their offspring to spare them from destitution and believed it their right to do so. "We take our children as our property," says Fernando Cheung, former head of the Hong Kong legislature's welfare panel. "Asian culture dictates that they're ours, that they are not independent beings, especially when they're small...
...this costs money, and with a federal-budget deficit of more than 6% forecast for this year, Russia does not have a lot to spare. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has pledged an initial outlay of $12 billion from the budget to fund the construction projects, but that is not expected to be enough - and private investors have indicated that they may not be willing to make up the difference during the economic downturn. There are also signs that the initial cost estimates have been way off. Last July, the government said the total construction bill would run about $6.6 billion...