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...broadcasts and retail sales took them to wider audiences, winning new generations of admirers. The new movie should reach break-even point when the 8 millionth viewer parks in a seat at the movie house to watch the fun. But neither Leconte nor Jugnot expect foreign audiences to queue round the block. "France's sense of humor and comedies just don't seem to globalize," says Leconte, "unless the Americans decide to remake them." Les Bronzés in particular, Jugnot adds, is an inside joke "about how we French are ugly, mean and cheap." That's a good reason...
There's much more to it, though. "Imagine," says Stanford University president John Hennessy, "that the next round of innovations in networking is done in India or China. How many years is it before either Cisco relocates to India or China and grows most of its new jobs there or the next Cisco is actually created there?" That's not so farfetched, says Du Pont CEO Chad Holliday: "If the U.S. doesn't get its act together, Du Pont is going to go to the countries that do, and so are IBM and Intel. We'd much rather be here...
...Merkel, making her debut as Germany's new Chancellor, gave a well-received speech. (I particularly liked her homage to Ludwig Erhard, the architect of the post-1945 Wirtschaftswunder - when was the last time that he got his due?) Gordon Brown, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, got a round of heartfelt applause - but for his many contributions to ameliorating poverty and misery in the developing world, not for anything he has done to shake the rich half of Europe out of its slumber. Two years ago, at the Time Board of Economists in Davos, Mois...
...Round 6 guys...
...that the last round...