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...shields. "This campaign is really fun," the cdu's Rüttgers told a rally last week. "It's nice to have a tailwind for once." A cdu victory in North Rhine-Westphalia could be the clearest sign yet that Germans are ready for a change of leadership in Berlin...
...story goes, constitute the forces primarily responsible for leveling the playing field. Most of these are business practices defined in the peculiar language of management consultants—outsourcing, insourcing, open-sourcing, supply-chaining—but the list also includes the fall of the Berlin Wall and Netscape’s initial public offering, which Friedman may credit too effusively for initiating the 1990s tech economy. Though these factors seem somewhat arbitrarily chosen, their explications are enlightening. For instance, Friedman explains UPS’s fascinating role, referenced knowingly but indecipherably in the company’s television commercials...
...converge” is an inadequate, and indeed somewhat meaningless, descriptor for this rich story. Are the factors that participate in the triple convergence mutually reinforcing? Is the relationship among them linear and causal? How does the fall of the Berlin Wall, a singular historical event in 1989, “converge” with open-sourcing...
...would also like to warn her of a probable "Hey, Sinad!" faction. You see, this isn't like Britney Spears going brunet. Portman, the exotically coiffed Padm Amidala in Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith, allowed her petite pate to be shaved on camera in Berlin last week, a process she describes as "really exciting." The 23-year-old's shoulder-length chestnut locks were sheared for a prison scene in this fall's futuristic drama V for Vendetta. In this next film from the makers of the Matrix trilogy, Portman plays a suspected terrorist...
...Louis Municipal Theatre, or Muny, for the past three years—which puts on considerably more conservative productions—Donahue was particularly sensitive to the division between the two ends of the spectrum; he compares the performances at the Muny to those he had seen in Berlin as well as at the American Repertoire Theatre here at Harvard...