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...Kirk, he's happy to have come full circle, to be back making something again. And he isn't worried that grownup marketing concerns will make it difficult for him to summon his inner boy. "For me, it's more of an effort getting out of the place where I think like a child," he says. Financial maturity has its upside too: more pocket money to blow on robots, other toys and old woodworking tools on eBay. Not to mention the freedom to create more fantasy worlds. After all, what's the fun in growing...
...Chinese investors have long had a habit of relying on the government to prop up the market. Indeed, CSRC officials have been known in the past to summon brokers to meetings and "advise" them to buy stocks when the market dipped too far. Given this tradition of official intervention, investors have learned to base their buying decisions not on whether they think a company's profits will grow in the long term but on what they think the next governmental policy will be. Thus stocks tank every time the CSRC announces plans to let listed state enterprises sell more...
...bosses for the country's first mobile-phone license yet had to fight them all the way to the supreme court before he could connect his first subscribers in 1998. For beating the establishment, he became a national hero, especially among opposition politicians, who today use cell phones to summon supporters to rallies and alert radio stations to fraud at polling places. His introduction of wireless technology has profited not only Masiyiwa--who says Econet's profits are up 116% this year--but also Africa's progress toward democracy. --By Simon Robinson/Johannesburg
...would still compose verse in a familiar meter, Nash would keep a line going longer than a Bishop Sheen speech or a Jerry Colonna note, while winding toward some tortured rhyme and keeping readers guessing whether he'd finish up in Yonkers, or call certain people schwankers, or summon up mountain climbers known as Mont-Blanckers, and just when you'd exhausted yourself guessing how low Nash would stoop for a rhyme, you'd learn at the end of the line that he never stoops, he conquers. An editor's note in the recent collection "Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology...
...arrived six months ago from Jaipur. "I will never join the junior artists," he says. "I have talent. I have good looks. Why should I want to be one of them?" Every morning, armed with his head shots, he visits studios and producers. Assistants take his pictures, promising to summon him for auditions. Very few call back. But Pandit is sure someone out there is going to give him a break. "That is the magic of this business," he says. "One day, I am going to find a godfather who will recognize my talent and give me a chance...