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...days now, investigators, police experts and television-news viewers have been watching and rewatching a 28-sec. tape. In that short yet endless sequence, they scan for clues to explain why so many Philadelphia policemen are surrounding a man, stomping and punching him as he lies on the ground, wounded...
Many of today's tech millionaires and billionaires are applying to philanthropy the lessons they have learned as entrepreneurs. They want to make sure their charitable investments benefit their ultimate "customers"--those in need--and don't get lost in red tape and bureaucracy. This has caused some tension with the nonprofit organizations that have traditionally been the recipients of such largesse. "Are charitable organizations ready to deal with all that money?" asks Stacy Palmer, editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. "If your scale has always been a lot smaller and all of a sudden you are given major resources...
...Last week, in the wake of Gretchen's unexpected expulsion by the Tribal Council, the first meaty theory emerged about who really won the tape-delayed "Survivor" when it was completed on April 20. An intrepid web surfer had rummaged through CBS' web site and discovered that among pictures of the cast members, a certain picture of Gervase (the lazy one) did not have a certain red X over his face. Winner? Saying it was probably a CBS-engineered red herring, I nevertheless passed it on to readers of this site last week. (As for the Gervase "red X" theory...
...make the VCR work. It swallows the tape in a businesslike way - so far, so good; it shows promising bright preliminary fuzz and static, like an orchestra tuning up... and then it goes abruptly black...
Success has not come easily. Compared with the openness of doing business in America, Europe's zoning procedures are often lengthy, land is costly and red tape plentiful. "In the States, real estate is location, location, location. In Europe, it's politics, politics, politics," Kaempfer wryly notes. His initial plans are almost always opposed by local retailers who fear loss of trade. It took four years of court squabbles, which set his company back $15 million in design and legal fees, before Kaempfer was cleared to break ground this summer on a 309,000-sq.-ft., 100-store suburban Berlin...