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...PATTY STONESIFER Microsoft's top female exec quit her "all-absorbing" career in 1997 for more time with her teenagers. With her stock options, Stonesifer, now 46, can afford to kick back; today she co-chairs Bill Gates' charitable foundation...
...station. On Jan. 8, the rebels took revenge. "About 250 of them surrounded the house," recalls his brother, Bisseswar Yadav. "They came into the house and tied all the adults' hands. They demanded to know where the guns were and, when we didn't tell them, they began to kick us and beat us with iron rods and sticks. While some of them began looting the house, two men put a wooden box under my brother's legs. As two men held him down, two others beat his legs, up and down with rods and sticks until they broke them...
...both know that Spider-Man is going to kick some serious ass today. We know the movie will rock the box office and, for various reasons, its sheer success will leave filmmakers, audiences and oblivious film executives breathless, clinging to their armrests, with all the power of an angry storm. The trailer alone, with its eye-popping effects, sleek and postmodern world and hot-as-hell, upside-down kiss between Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man/Peter Parker and Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson, is enough to leave us all drooling for more. What the trailer establishes from the outset...
It’s not the flashiest of the flag-flying holidays, coming more than a month before summer kick-off of Memorial Day and without the mid-summer revelry of the Fourth of July, but it is unique and historical, and as such Massachusetts is proud to let school kids free and marathoners run wild to celebrate Patriots’ Day every April. To explore one Patriots’ Day tradition of battle reenactments, FM ventured back in time and out to the suburbs, hoping to uncover the motivations of tri-corner-hatted men who wake up at dawn...
...Amoco, ChevronTexaco and ExxonMobil demonstrate well enough the industry's recent wave of consolidation. But as Levin targets the brief but headline-making pump-price spikes of spring 2000 and summer 2001 and calls for antitrust action against the industry, he forgets how the got on this merger kick in the first place: the rock-bottom oil prices of 1999. Disappearing profits induced Exxon and Mobil to join forces in search of a vertically integrated economy-of-scale that could find, pump, refine and sell oil without going out business, and the rest of the industry soon followed suit...