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...been a premature victory party? Had it been the Hollywood tale of the comeback kid? Had it been just a bad dream...
Here's a little tale of two giant companies going opposite ways yet bound for the same place: Mediocreville. Both are trying desperately to avoid that end, one by boundlessly buying new businesses and the other by ripping itself apart. These are choices that companies face all the time, by the way, and they are critical to stock-market performance. One company is AT&T, which last week announced its third breakup in 17 years. The other is GE, which unveiled its umpteenth and largest acquisition--$45 billion for defense contractor Honeywell...
...they fun, but they can be substantive and insightful as well. This is, I suppose, to be expected of Wolfe. He has a style that gives as much force to his argument as any amount of evidence does, drawing wonderful quasi-historical lessons and parallels, especially in his tale of Silicon Valley-who would have seen any connection between Grinnell, Iowa and the rise of an American legend? What you read here (or in any book review) does his skill absolutely no justice, because it is only as you actually read the stuff that you realize how cleverly crafted Wolfe...
...Ross" (1945) and "So Dark the Night" (1946). Both films are as richly atmospheric and suspenseful as anything Hitchcock produced in the 1940s - "Julia Ross," in fact, plays like a shorter, creepier take on "Rebecca," and both movies received critical accolades, a rare occurrence for a B feature. The tale of a young woman who is held captive by a crooked mother-and-son team who attempt to convince her that she's the son's mentally unstable wife, "Julia Ross" is distinguished by topnotch camerawork and George Macready?s over-the-top turn as the middle-aged mama...
...dreams of peace to the possibility of renewed--and perhaps even more widespread--violence, TIME asked a number of people living amid the turmoil to keep daily diaries. The reports--gathered by TIME's Jerusalem bureau chief Matt Rees and Jerusalem reporters Jamil Hamad and Aharon Klein--tell the tale of people struggling to adjust in the face of a collapsing world. Some greet the new chaos with resignation, others with a fervent, steely passion to win what they feel their people deserve. All the entries are tinged with sadness. The week began with a hurried summit in Egypt...