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...head against a brick wall repeatedly and remind it of the existence of the rule of law. He took on the role, and the official branding of bias that comes with it. The payoff will take a little longer. If Microsoft really has turned over a new leaf, Silicon Valley may one day build statues in his honor...
...warmest of directorial styles; Kubrick's is among the coolest. One aims to seduce the audience; the other wanted to bend moviegoers to see it his way, or to hell with them. The resulting fugue is like a piece composed for brass but played on woodwinds, a Death Valley map on which Spielberg has placed seeds, hoping they will somehow blossom...
...Like Silicon Valley, Marseilles is proving high quality of life is conducive to industrial innovation and wealth creation," says Guy Guistini, managing director of the Provence Promotion agency, which leads Marseilles' drive to bring high-tech and other fast-growing businesses to the area. The effort is paying off. Last year Marseilles and its region led the nation in foreign investment for the first time - even outdistancing its traditional rival, the capital. "The habit of Paris luring the best companies and skilled workers out of the provinces is reversing," Guistini says...
...beard" in Albanian), interviewed this month at a monastery high on a bluff overlooking eastern Macedonia said, "They can't fight with us. Their paramilitaries will fight with civilians - but not with us." A teenage combatant at the rebel camp looked scornfully down at a police base in the valley below, then added, "If the Macedonians lose one son or brother they will stop fighting." He claimed the authorities were using mercenaries from Ukraine and elsewhere because their own men were too frightened to fight. Such bluster is expected, especially from rebels whose only successes have come in surprise attacks...
...throughout the 20th century for producing oceans of undistinguished plonk. When that market dried up in the 1980s, a new generation of growers showed that the Languedoc could also produce smaller quantities of high-quality wine. It didn't take long for the news to reach California's Napa Valley, where Robert G. Mondavi, now 88, and his family have been making premium wines for decades. In early 1998, Mondavi dispatched a team to the Languedoc to find a vineyard where the winemaker could produce its own high-quality vintage. The company settled on 50 hectares of scrub-covered hillside...