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...made Moi very nervous. Ngugi first started writing in the '60s, under his original name, James Ngugi, and in English: the leftover colonial language still revered in parts of today's Africa, where schools punish students for speaking African languages. Pushing aside the influences of his childhood curriculum - William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, T.S. Eliot - he instead dipped into Africa's storytelling history. "The tradition from which I came was that of the realism of the 19th-century English novel," he says. "It was very limiting in terms of imagination, time and space. The folkloric tradition frees the imagination - humans talk...
...prolific incubator of money-minting ideas, playing a key role in creating everything from the computer mouse to the HDTV standard, which Carlson helped develop. Over the past 20 years, Carlson has searched SRI and countless corporations for the best practices of innovation. Now he has, with William Wilmot, director of the Collaboration Institute, laid all that learning down in a book, Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want...
Nimoy hasn't abandoned his otherworldly roots. For Star Trek's 40th, he and William Shatner, who "see each other regularly," will tour to meet fans around the country. "I'm very proud that after 40 years, people are still interested," says Nimoy--which means he knows the import of another of his roles; he has a say in the casting of a younger Spock for the 11th Star Trek movie...
...sentimental story about an unlucky casino employee and his girlfriend, had just been smacked with an NC-17 classification - no one under 17 allowed to attend - by the ratings board of the Motion Picture Association of America. The film's offending passage was a tender love scene between William H. Macy and Maria Bello that included the briefest glimpse of the actors' genitals...
...Bush Administration has launched its latest PR offensive to boost support for the increasingly unpopular war in Iraq. But the rhetoric is familiar: an attempt to raise the specter of appeasement, starting with Donald Rumsfeld's speech to the American Legion Tuesday, in which he quoted Sen. William Borah saying "Lord, if only I had talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided!" after hearing of Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939. (Meanwhile, Rumsfeld barely mentioned Iraq until the last 500 words of the speech.) And today, in his speech to the Legion, President Bush described Islamic...