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...million to $10 million apiece. He is about to announce a 10,000-unit residential, retail and hotel complex in Las Vegas, inspired by the Tivoli Gardens, Central Park and a Tuscan town square. In a softening housing market, the Las Vegas project will be a stern test of Schrager's vision. "Everything Ian does has levels of influence," says Ross Klein, president of W Hotels Worldwide. "He's an innovator, and this balancing of full-time and overnight property is what people will be watching...
...Marvel's future remains a cliff-hanger. "It's definitely one of the more--if not the most--difficult companies out there to forecast," says Bear Stearns analyst Glen Reid. In late May, just as Marvel kicked off what may be the greatest test of its powers yet--a slate of 10 independently financed films--the firm stunned investors and Hollywood alike by announcing that Avi Arad, the man behind the Spider-Man and X-Men film franchises, would leave to start his own production company. Not six weeks later, two more key execs departed unexpectedly--Tim Rothwell and Bruno...
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...piece was composed at a time when the war between Israel and Hizballah had pushed Iraq off the front pages and out of people's minds, even though the mounting casualties in Iraq exceeded those of Israel and Lebanon combined. It's been said that the test of a first-rate intelligence is to keep two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time. But it's not an easy task to keep two disturbing conflicts in one's head all the time. Indeed, as W.H. Auden wrote in "Musée des Beaux Arts," his beautiful poem about...
During my 40 years as a sportscaster for NBC and ABC, I met many great athletes. And it was only the great ones who said, "I want my opponent to be at his very best because that's the only way I can truly test myself." The disappointing ending to the World Cup makes me wonder whether Marco Materazzi and his Italian teammates are proud of their championship. Is winning at any cost the only thing that counts...