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...tell what Redmayne's (The Good Shepherd, The Other Boleyn Girl) full range is, but he's definitely got the gift of riveting strangeness. You start out thinking his Gordy is the village idiot; then, as this ghostly pale, freckled redhead goes on and on about being Native American, you decide he's a fabulist. Watching him furtively stuff crayfish in his mouth, you add compulsive to the list...
...into approximately 905,000 Cobalt models in the United States after receiving more than 1,100 complaints of loss of power steering, 14 crashes and one injury, GM disclosed. "We're playing this as honest and transparent as we can," said Mark Reuss, president of GM's North American Operations. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...reason for the domestic shakeup, analysts say, is to revive GM's North American market, considered the heart of any GM recovery. Driving home that point, Reuss brought back experts from GM operations in Australia and Thailand to work on North American sales and marketing initiatives. "We needed expertise," explained Reuss, whose latest re-organization also sent Bryan Nesbitt, who had been general manager of the Cadillac Division since last fall back to GM's design staff where he will be in charge of GM's advance design studio. "Bryan's very talented. We need his expertise in design," said...
...Russian President Dmitri Medvedev wound up a three-day state visit to Paris on Wednesday, he had to be pleased with the results. After all, he virtually cinched an unprecedented military deal, bagged a significant gas contract and watched his French host, President Nicolas Sarkozy, dismiss American and European misgivings about his embrace of Moscow by treating Medvedev like his newest best friend forever. There wasn't a whole lot for the Russian leader not to love...
...other reasons too. A Russian admiral recently said the amphibious vessels - which can carry 15 helicopters or 70 armored vehicles - would have allowed Russia to complete its August 2008 invasion of Georgia in a matter of hours. Little wonder, then, that the deal has prompted deep concern among American defense officials as well as among European Union members like Poland, Latvia and Lithuania, which fear that the warships could one day be used against former Soviet satellites like themselves...