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...conveys the emotional and physical landscape of the future world in a way that the extravagant set does not. Apparently Warner Brothers built a 65-foot tall working waterfall–despite the expense, it’s an entirely forgettable special effect. Jeremy Irons, as the chillingly androgynous Uber-Morlock who runs the dark world of the Morlocks through mind control, has the one memorable monologue in the movie. Hartdegan has traveled to the creepy center of the Morlock world to look for the captured Mara, who is being kept by Uber as an eventual breeding vessel...
...there's at least one person who believes Global Crossing will rise again: Hong Kong Uber-dealmaker Li Ka-shing. Through a partnership between Hutchison Whampoa, Li's Hong Kong ports/telecoms/electric power conglomerate, and Singapore Technologies Telemedia (STT), owner of Singapore's third-largest phone company, Li has engineered a rescue package. The two companies have bid $750 million to help recapitalize and restructure Global Crossing. If the plan is approved by the courts (it's likely to be controversial because the proposal calls for holdings of mom-and-pop shareholders to be wiped out), Hutchison and STT will wind...
...only hints at Jenn’s capacity for power. Once she puts on her Armani pants suit, Jenn is ready to hit the City and take over the town. Besides an obvious marriage to a rich and successful man, a big house in Greenwich and a bevy of uber-talented offspring, Jenn’s future will hold one special thing: celebrity...
This is wartime, the President reminds us. The usual rules do not apply. Fair enough. But what worries some people, ranging from Bush's persistent critics at the ACLU to conservative New York Times columnist William Safire to uber-conservative U.S. Rep. Bob Barr, is this administration's propensity for overstepping centuries-old legislative procedures in the name of national security...
...doesn?t matter whether Bethune is good or bad, right or wrong. The fact is, his order was jeopardized by circumstances beyond his control. Gary Hamel, the uber-strategist who moderated the Fortune conference the way a Baptist minister rails against booze and babes, warns that "we have approached the limits of manageability...