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Although Rumsfeld insists the realignments will help transform the military into a "more agile" force, with the armed services operating jointly at more bases, the shift south and west conveniently benefits the G.O.P., which dominates those regions. Even so, some red states are feeling rather blue. South Dakota's John Thune, who defeated Senate minority leader Tom Daschle last year partly on a promise that his G.O.P. connections would protect Ellsworth Air Force Base, is livid that it is on the closing list. The Base Realignment and Closure Commission has until Sept. 8 to approve or amend Rumsfeld's list...
...many marketing and management jobs at the company's panregional headquarters in Tour Descartes, Paris. "Things that used to be formally done there will now be moved to the ladies and gentlemen in the field," says Fred McNeese, IBM's spokesman in Paris. "It's a pretty dramatic management shift for us in Europe." McNeese insists that the cuts will not be centered in Britain, where worker compensation is less costly than on the Continent. The firm says the layoffs are part of its long-term strategy to "get closer to the client," and unrelated to the announcement last week...
...Essay "Why Montana Is Turning Blue" [April 25], Walter Kirn suggested that Montana's shift from Republican red to Democratic blue is the result of the influx of people like him who moved to the state 10 to 15 years ago. My wife and I have lived in Montana for most of our 60-plus years. We don't snowboard, raft or eat sushi, but, by golly, we've been to the Big Apple, and we like New York City. Montana, though, will always be our home. Nowhere in the world are the skies so big and blue. Our state...
Graphic novels, by nature, are a visual medium. As a result, a significant portion of the emphasis normally placed on a novel’s writing is shifted over to the artwork. In this case, this shift is a very fortunate move as, sadly, the writing in “Guilty” can sometimes verge on the mediocre and there are also a number of misspellings in the dialogue. However, Stevens’ drawings are often so realistic and subtly attention-grabbing as to render the dialogue almost entirely irrelevant...
...expect it to be overly faithful to the original Adamsian atmosphere of the radioplay and novels. Adaptation is a hard game to play and its products often differ radically from the original. In the case of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide,” the shift from novel to movie has left the narrative fairly well intact, but the style and tone are irrevocably changed. There are both merits and demerits to this modification, but for true Douglas Adams aficionados—to quote somewhat inappropriately the wonderfully named character of Slartibartfast?...