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...Night” and his 1994 debut “Little Odessa” were set there—seems bleaker than ever, a halfway house for Manhattan mistresses like Michelle (Paltrow, in a truly fearless performance) while still grudgingly remaining a home for daughters of Jewish businessmen. Sandra Cohen (Shaw, sporting the latest from the Jennifer Garner line of cheekbone implants)—the daughter of one of Brooklyn’s famed dry cleaning éminence grises—relentlessly hits on Leonard while he pursues Michelle. “I love...
...strategy proved to be wonderfully efficient. It drew investment capital into the country, generating factory jobs for impoverished farmers, infrastructure to supercharge commercial development, and otherwise produced wealth South Korea could never have generated on its own. Eager to raise living standards in their own countries, Asian policymakers and businessmen to varying degrees adopted the same fast-track formula. The economies of South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore did so with such success they became known as the Asian tigers. Their growth model produced miracles - and as Park said in a 1965 speech, exports were "the economic lifeline...
...reason that Yahoo does not matter. What matters is that it is no longer a company with even a modest voice in the media industry. The time when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer might have bought it or its search division is probably over. Ballmer is, as most good businessmen should be, ruthless beyond the imagination of the general public. He gave Yahoo's board a chance to do the right thing for its shareholders. Once Yahoo turned Ballmer down, he kept leaking comments about ongoing interest to the press. Just as Yahoo was beginning take on water because...
...sanctions bar him and his associates from visiting or conducting financial affairs in the West. So the former champion of anticolonial revolution has over the years turned toward the wealthier climes of Southeast Asia, where he once could count on significant support and still does among private circles of businessmen and politicos...
...murders last year. A self-styled Juarez Citizens' Command sent an e-mail to local media in January saying it will give the government until July 5 to restore order or execute one criminal a day. Signed by "Comandante Abraham," the group claims it is financed by local businessmen, and includes university students, entrepreneurs and professionals in its ranks. It offers to cooperate with military intelligence and says it supports the government, but argues that the elected politicians have failed...