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...VIRTUAL NAGASAKI (shs.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ohki/tourist)...
...wrest Vivendi away from chief executive Jean-Marie Messier. After all, like Messier, Bronfman always came across as a bit of a dilettante and star-struck CEO. At Universal he once sent a memo to studio executives saying he expected to have double-digit earnings growth every quarter, a virtual impossibility in such a hit-driven industry...
...pity is that while manipulations might have been a virtual necessity to succeed in business in the corrupt and stultified economy of the 1970s and 1980s, Ambani's tactics continued to raise concerns after 1991 when liberalizing reforms began to kick in. Reliance nearly suffered a disastrous collapse in investor confidence in 1995, when the Bombay Stock Exchange raised questions over share duplications and other accounting anomalies that appeared to disadvantage minority shareholders. The company subsequently pleaded guilty to technical breaches and clerical errors but no intent to defraud was found. Confidence was ultimately restored and the share price rebounded...
Skorts have often been regarded as the tuna Mornay of fashion: comfortable yet tasteless. But with the flippy new styles sported at Wimbledon last week by the physically gifted (Anna Kournikova, center), the athletically gifted (Serena Williams, left) and virtual unknowns (Asa Svensson) alike, the skirt-shorts combo may be back. "I think it's cute," says Simon Doonan, creative director of Barneys and a noted style sultan. "I could see Carrie Bradshaw wearing one in Sex and the City with a pair of Blahniks." Kournikova's Adidas skort is already in stores ($45). Be warned, though: the new styles...
...that. By next summer it expects to be able to produce live images direct from cars negotiating the harshest and most spectacularly beautiful courses around the world. It was on a visit to New Zealand that Richards encountered the technology that is taking the sport into a new dimension. Virtual Spectator, a computer-graphics company, had created Internet coverage of America's Cup races, showing the yachts' positions on a virtual ocean. Richards immediately thought, "This could work very well in motor racing." But it was a complex job. Virtual Spectator had to recreate exact pictures of all the courses...