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...addressing a class of economics students. He fell out with Moi in the 1980s and quit KANU to run for the presidency in Kenya's first real multiparty elections in 1992. Given to colorful shirts much like Nelson Mandela's, Kibaki stood out among the staid besuited politicians around him on the campaign trail. A golf fanatic, he laments that a year of campaigning has led his handicap to fall from 24 to 28. If he can curb corruption and improve their lives, Kenyans won't mind if his game gets even worse...
...time Watkins arrived, Enron was fast shedding its image as a staid natural-gas-pipeline company. Trading chief Jeffrey Skilling and his financial whiz, Andrew Fastow, wanted to build a nimble, "asset-light" firm that could exploit deregulating markets for energy, water, weather derivatives, broadband capacity and anything else that could be turned into a commodity. The strategy spawned explosive growth. By 2000, Enron was the seventh largest company in America. The '90s were fat times for Enron, and the corporate culture oozed in excess. The company rented ski condos in Beaver Creek, Colo., and stocked each with a personal...
Forget the pugilistic antics of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the protracted historical sweep of The Last Emperor—Contemporary Chinese film represents far more than these staid stereotypes. As demonstrated by the Harvard Film Archive’s Annual Chinese Film Festival, China is in the midst of a renaissance in filmmaking. In his opening remarks for the festival, Archive curator Bruce Jenkins drew a parallel in his opening remarks between the impending change in China’s political leadership and the shift in the leadership of the vanguard of modern Chinese film...
...comparison makes sense, if the Market Theater—whose building was renovated to staid, somber splendor for $2 million by founder Gregory C. Carr—can be thought of as the horse...
...ordinary night, the East Coast Grill’s menu is not known for being staid. It offers interpretations of seafood and grilled meats, influenced by the pungent spicing of Asia and the Caribbean. But Hell Night is in an altogether different key. The menu is exclusively hot, from drinks to dessert, and each dish is rated on a scale of one to seven “bombs” (though you’d be hard-pressed to find anything under four...