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...advantages we have for our globalizing customer base is that we have a single global structure. Our customers don't want to be told that they have to go through a separate board to get something done in another part of the world. We've had that structure since 2002. Visa Europe still stands separate from Visa...
...surprise megahit status of the first Lord of the Rings film, bought the rights to the Pullman saga - and promptly started fretting about the God problem. Retain the books' central conflict, and stoke the wrath of America's Christian Right. Delete it, and risk alienating Pullman's fan base, which is not so large here as in Britain. (The books had already been slightly redacted in their U.S. editions, which cut passages about Lyra's budding sexuality...
...what should we leave behind? What should be the national tasks?”SHOT HEARD ‘ROUND THE WORLDBefore taking the podium, Brokaw presented the trailer for “1968,” a two-hour History Channel documentary based on a portion of “BOOM!”The screen displayed Brokaw, standing in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district, where he stood 40 years ago when it was “the center of the world for the counterculture.” It cut first to a clip...
...Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz Nothing says “good, interesting read” like the red silhouette of a man’s head with a bird’s wing emerging from the back, red ink dripping eerily from its base. If Wao’s life really was so brief and wondrous, Díaz’s latest should be action-packed and exciting. The stark red, black, and white color scheme of the cover certainly gives just that impression. Perhaps there’s even an element...
...Empty shop windows, Levittowns, and boarded-up apartment buildings tell the story. According to William L. Fox, the author of the first essay appearing in the afterword, the inner city is ruinous and local businesses are disappearing as a direct consequence of the spread of suburbia. As the tax base rushes to new localities in the hope of peace and quiet, they leave no incentive for investment in the core of the city. As America has slowly “[shifted] from a nation of citizens to a nation of consumers,” it follows that corporations such...