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...December the class presented Team Yao with a 500-page report about the core values of the 400 million urban Chinese consumers on whom they think Yao's marketers should focus. These Chinese, when asked which values were most important to them, "used words like hardworking, self-confidence, respect, talent, heroism and lightheartedness," says Sanders. Head to head, Yao outpolled all other Chinese celebrities on those qualities. "Yao was at the top--China's most popular celebrity...
Everyone agrees on one point. "There's particularly strong female acting talent working these days," says Moore. "You want to say 'If there are so many of us, let's have some more parts.'" Will this be the first golden age of film actresses that isn't accompanied by a golden age of women's films? "Last year women had a lot of interesting scripts," Zeta-Jones says. "This year it looks like a much lighter slate: 'Remake 3,' 'Comic-Book Character,' 'Sequel...
...reaching beyond CEOs, who are overwhelmingly white and male, boards are tapping a rich new source of talent. "This is going to be the largest short-term opportunity we've seen," says Carl Brooks, president of the Executive Leadership Council, an organization of African-American businessmen. Of its 283 members, all of whom serve within three levels of the CEO position at their companies, only one-quarter serve on a board. But after years of only spotty interest from boards and recruiters, the organization now gets inquiries every week. Similarly, 16% of corporate officers of the 500 largest public companies...
...Producer Mark Johnson, chairman of the Academy's Foreign Language Film Award Committee, says his group does get the big picture. "We take into account the country submitting it, what percent of the creative talent comes from that country and whether the film is thematically reflective of that country," he says. "We have to be extra careful about our rules as movies become more international and it becomes harder to ascribe nationality." If anything, Johnson says, the committee has been lax this year. It accepted Afghanistan's Fire Dancer, a film set in New York and featuring an Afghan-American...
...roadkill. That would include Namibia, which, along with Canada, is the newest addition to the now 14-team tournament. Australia is led by its captain, Ricky Ponting, and Shane Warne, one of the world's greatest spin bowlers. But the team appears to have a bottomless well of batting talent, and behind Warne's trickery is a trio of fast bowlers who can do just as much damage. Among other potential heroes to look out for: England's Marcus Trescothick and India's pint-sized maestro Sachin Tendulkar. Pakistan's Yousuf Youhana and Shoaib Akhtar, the "Rawalpindi Express...