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...years as CEO is that perception matters." Jack Welch, former chief executive of General Electric, announcing his decision to forgo many of his retirement perks after they drew criticism in the media "Devaluations are not risks in Latin America, they are certainties." Mario Giraldo, president of Colombian foodmaker Noel, on the region's monetary woes "He was the Great Satan, the personification of evil. But after watching this film you end up just a little bit in love with him." Alexei Kazakov, Moscow movie critic, on The Oligarch, based on the life of tycoon Boris Berezovsky
...concessions in endangered areas and placing them off limits to logging. They are surprisingly affordable, in part because profit margins on felled timber in remote areas can be low, which means there are few potential buyers. The Nature Conservancy bought the rights to 1.6 million acres adjoining Bolivia's Noel Kempff Mercado National Park in 1998 for $1 an acre--doubling the park's size. In 2000 Conservation International leased 200,000 acres of forest in southeastern Guyana for a $20,000 up-front fee and annual payments of 15[cents] an acre. Even where loggers cannot be bought...
...want Larry to deliver copy. Many people who knew Rodgers said he had the soul of a banker. He went to work, wrote a gorgeous, chromatically sophisticated tune, went home (or to an upper room in Sardi's). He was the fastest composer in the East; as Noel Coward said, mixing envy and awe, "The man positively pees melody." Speed was essential in the mid-20s, when Dick and Larry finally got cooking and, in 1926, produced 60 songs for six shows. But Rodgers didn't lose anything off his fast ball when he teamed with Hammerstein; it is said...
...story of the films is one of aristocratic Fred elevating shopgirl Ginger to his level, and of Ginger bringing Fred down to hers; each brings out the best in the other. Croce says of the team: "They weren't Alfred [Lunt] and Lynn [Fontanne] and they weren't Noel [Coward] and Gertie [Lawrence]; they were the two most divinely usual people in the history of movies." If that's the case, then Ginger is at the soul of the movie. She was divinely usual. He was, usually, divine...
...Esquire and GQ) now prefer traditional Savile Row tailoring over designer duds. Under the design direction of Carlo Brandelli, Savile Row's Kilgour French Stanbury has been rewarded with not only the business of the fashion crowd, but of the celebrity crowd as well. Actor Jude Law and musician Noel Gallagher are customers too. "I would fear walking into Anderson & Sheppard," says Bill Prince, GQ's deputy editor. "But Kilgour understands younger men." Gucci is fighting back with its own bespoke service. "It's clearly a response to the fact that a bespoke suit is the blue chip element...