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Action movies don't have to fail. The Fugitive, The Rock, The Long Kiss Goodnight satisfy the dramatic unities while kicking beaucoup butt. And sometimes a gifted director can go beyond the conventional pleasures. With Face/Off, John Woo, the Hong Kong auteur (The Killer, Hard Boiled), has made his smartest, wildest, positively Woo-siest American thriller. Working from a vigorous script by Mike Werb and Michael Colleary, Woo weaves his familiar touches--the slo-mo, the gleaming candles, the long coats flying in the breeze, the doves flying in a chapel as an omen of death--around the central fantasy...
...bundle. Capital spending of $228 million last year outweighed $190 million in sales. Bryan has raised a $1.1 billion war chest; without deregulation, he says, "the financial markets wouldn't have been open to us." But a payoff is in sight. In Ohio, where the company is attempting to woo customers away from Ameritech, ICG marketers' cold calls have led to a remarkable 50% in follow-up appointments. Bryan says ICG will probably have a positive cash flow next year...
...conservative candidates to defeat. Le Pen's contentiousness may cost Chirac his majority. His conservatives head into Sunday's runoff having netted just 29.9 percent of the vote, with the Socialists, bolstered by a broad leftist coalition, taking 40.6 percent. To keep their jobs, conservatives need not only to woo the Le Pen crowd but convince the 32 percent of eligible voters who sat out the first round to get to the ballot boxes. And leave the produce at home...
...often you will use it. For people who are likely to spend fewer than 100 minutes in over-the-air yakking, a basic plan with few bells and whistles should be adequate. And the choice between digital and analog? "For most people, analog works fine," says Ken Woo, a communications manager for AT&T. "It's pure telephone." But for business customers, who account for roughly half of all wireless usage, PCS services such as E-mail may look particularly appealing...
Simply put, Harvard should do everything in its power to woo top female candidates to join the faculty. Boasting unrivaled intellectual resources, an eight billion dollar endowment and an attractive Cambridge locale, Harvard has many tools at its disposal for attracting the world's leading scholars. And one of those tools is money. If a woman is the top candidate in a department's search, the size of the tenuring package should not be an object in bringing her here; Harvard should be willing to beat all competing offers, and beat them substantially when it is thought that this might...