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...Americans, naturally enough, are preoccupied with the carnage they have suffered and wrought. But conflagrations all over the world send refugees fleeing to other countries for safety, security, a little peace. There's a potent moment in Marco Tullio Giordana's Once You're Born -the Italian film that shares the Lumiere theater with Sith today -when a boat load of the dispossessed each give, in closeup, their name and home country. Montenegro, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bosnia, Sudan... The list of trouble spots could be endless; the wretched refuse numbers in the tens of millions; each face on that boat...
They could very well lose it. Rumors surrounding the PlayStation 3's processor make it sound like the Ark of the Covenant wrought in silicon, and it may be much further along than Gates gives it credit for. "We look at delivering a quantum leap in technology, not just Xbox version 1.5," a Sony spokeswoman said recently. ("Kutaragi's good at rhetoric," Gates says of Sony PlayStation czar Ken Kutaragi.) For all the Xbox's underdog pluck, the PlayStation 2 still has an overwhelming hold on the $25 billion global video-game market: 68% at last count, to Microsoft...
Lynn says that the lawsuit would also address the fact that the rules for the bidding process were wrought with inconsistencies...
Soon Peterson will enter the fabled real world beyond Harvard’s wrought iron gates. “Most women won’t work even though we went to a place like Harvard. I saw it with my own eyes, and it’s pretty overwhelming...
...Chen returned home to fulfil his dream of creating an aesthetic empire in a land still recovering from the artistic looting wrought by the Cultural Revolution. Basing himself in Shanghai, he quickly began to assemble the pieces: Layefe, a fashion-and-housewares label he founded, now with more than 130 stores nationwide; ownership of several lifestyle magazines; and a stable of long-legged beauties who would soon make up Yifei Modeling Agency, China's largest. Collectively, Chen's enterprises earned $200 million last year and brought an East-meets-West style to Chinese citizens caught up in the country...