Word: processing
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Mexico's new president, Vicente Fox, overcame his country's long-ruling P.R.I. government through a peaceful, democratic process and, more important, proved that the selfish interests of an entrenched nobility will never triumph over the will of the people. BARAK LURIE Los Angeles...
...often poorer on their departure. Japanese companies lost a bundle in the early 1990s, as did a series of French and Italian ventures. But this wave of German companies isn't buying just studios, as Sony did. These companies are buying production teams and burrowing into the production process. "Each company is pursuing a different strategy involving a complex mix of production and distribution elements," says Stephan Seip, media analyst at Merrill Lynch. Some of those strategies have a fantasy feel--for $65 million, you too can be a movie mogul and rub shoulders with the stars. But others...
...revolts in the parliament and within his own party, Israel's Prime Minister announced his resignation Saturday night, only 17 months into his term. Israelis will have to choose a new Prime Minister in two months--a vote that will have major repercussions on chances for resurrecting the peace process with the Palestinians...
...will be the man who can't run in it--former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "Bibi" has been preparing for a tilt at Barak since he was cleared of corruption charges in the fall. If the Knesset had been able to call general elections, as it was in the process of doing, Netanyahu could have challenged Likud leader Ariel Sharon for the right-wing spot to oppose Barak...
...with his father's mistress, leading to an accidental death, it has been championed by such big-name writers as Wally Lamb and Frank McCourt. The birth of a new literary star? "I'm so busy writing my next book," says Searles, "I haven't had a chance to process any of this...