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...Fields, who moved to Japan with his wife and two sons, proved adept at turning around an entrenched Japanese bureaucracy. Under his direction, Mazda was transformed from a floundering money loser to an automaker with net income of $66 million in its past fiscal year. Analysts hailed Fields as the next Carlos Ghosn--the executive who led Nissan's dramatic turnaround. Fields' bosses at Ford, which owns a controlling stake in Mazda, were so impressed that they handed him a bigger job: turbocharging Ford's troubled Premier Automotive Group (PAG), made up of Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo...
...other hand, Woo's battle sequences are outstanding. Woo has made his reputation largely with more fantastic films (Face/Off, Mission: Impossible 2), but he proves here that he's equally adept with more traditional material. His low, restlessly moving camera captures the anarchy of small-unit combat vividly, powerfully. But the energy and conviction of the action sequences don't quite compensate for Windtalkers' emotional cliches and historical heedlessness...
Harvard’s intellectual richness is derived in part from its wide array of graduate schools. The University is a center for study in countless fields, but it has never been adept at facilitating dialogue between its independent parts. Undergraduates are rarely able to take advantage of the wealth of opportunities in the nearby graduate schools, and graduate students often find it difficult to study in other schools or at the College...
...right, about both her and her husband's prospects--but not just because they're passionate and adept at what they do. They have also, as it turns out, each chosen fields--in his case, law enforcement and social services, in hers, health care--that are feeling the first effects of the coming job boom. That's right. Even as thousands of Americans are still getting pink slips, powerful help is on the way. And it has more to do with demographics than economics. The oldest members of the huge baby-boom generation are now 56, and as they start...
...panic I sometimes feel at my limited procreative shelf life often gives way to anger that I cannot control my ability to bear a child. Some of us are so adept at multitasking, we have come to believe that having children is a biological right. For those women who want children, the failure to have them not only teaches a sobering lesson in the limitations of science, it also provides a discomfiting look at one's own mortality. PAMELA MATHIASEN Los Angeles...