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Three more Crimson possessions yielded zero points. Three more turns down the court for the Cougars resulted in three easy close-range finishes, including a thunderous dunk. A couple of timeouts weren’t enough to stop the bleeding, as Cougar forward Stanley Jackson brought the packed John Kreese Arena crowd to its feet with an up-and-under dunk—its sixth basket in the paint in the first three minutes...
DIED. RAY RUDE, 88, who as an aircraft-company worker in the late 1940s invented a flexible board out of a junked aluminum wing panel and eventually turned it into a multimillion-dollar international diving-board company, Duraflex; in Stanley, N.D. More durable than wood, Duraflex boards are now the standard at the Olympics and other major diving events...
...because of the rosy presentation he made to investors on April 10, 2003. Milan magistrates have indicted him for disseminating false information. In his last few months at Parmalat, Ferraris also worked on several financing deals that are part of the ongoing criminal investigation, including ones with UBS, Morgan Stanley and Nextra Investment Management. In October, Nextra's parent, Italy's Banca Intesa, agreed to pay $208 million to Parmalat to avoid being taken to civil court for misstating the interest rate on a $390 million bond issue...
...Stanley Bing is among our best corporate-war correspondents because he's in the trenches. By day, he toils for a media warlord, sparring with corporate enemies, many of whom seem to be co-workers. He takes names and then, turning to his guise as a columnist at FORTUNE, kicks butt in print. In Sun Tzu Was a Sissy, Bing unloads on the famed Chinese strategist whose treatise, The Art of War, launched a thousand battles in China centuries ago--and a million management books in the past decade purporting to adapt Tzu's sublime Eastern battle philosophy to winning...
...temperamental “arteest” and finds it hard to speak about his style, which is known for having every frame look like a painting. He explains his process as driven simply by instinct, though he does admit to finding inspiration in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange and Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane, two classics by notoriously perfectionist auteurs...