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...decades made cars in Germany under the German brand Opel. But when GM last fall moved to stem years of heavy losses at its European operations by cutting 12,000 jobs, about 20% of the work force, the newsweekly Stern ran a cover depicting an American cowboy boot decorated with the Stars and Stripes stomping on German workers...
...also prepared to argue that by serving in an "illegal war" he would be a participant in war crimes. Even if he and Anderson can never attend family members' weddings or funerals back home, they are certain they are doing the right thing. Hinzman says, "They tell you in boot camp that if you are given an illegal order, it is your duty to disobey it." No matter what anyone else might call them, in their own minds, Hinzman, Anderson and their peers are still good soldiers, just following orders. --Reported by Steven Frank and Paul Gains/ Toronto and Sandra...
...band can only handle so much boot-tappin’ and gyratin’ in acid-washed jeans before their fans wander on in search of drunker pastures. The second disk is void of any of the songs that gave the Crüe their extended fifteen minutes of fame. Mötley Crüe made its name in mindless driving rock to which one could swig a beer; in trying to highlight their accomplishments of the post-grunge, semi-cleaned-up 90s, they recede into a softening sound and fading tattoos. Where the first half of the album...
...lost a power struggle to her board is emblematic of a dramatic shift taking place in corporate America. With board members of companies from Disney to Enron getting hauled into court to answer for their stewardship, directors are becoming ever more emboldened to give poor- performing CEOs the boot. In fact, 92 CEOs departed in January, the highest number since February 2001, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, an outplacement firm. "Boards are trying to demonstrate that they are doing their duty," says Warren Batts of the University of Chicago, former CEO and director of several FORTUNE 500 companies...
...Ejiofor casts a potent spell. But don't look at his hands. Because right now, the 27-year-old actor has hands like a girl - 2-cm-long nails brightly buffed and filed to an elegant curve. Ejiofor has just come from rehearsals for his latest project, The Kinky Boot Factory, a comedy in which he plays Lola, a sassy transvestite cabaret star. Press-on nails, his makeup team tell him, snap too easily, so Ejiofor's grown his own, acquiring some useful expertise in applying cosmetics in the process. "I've learned that wet nail polish gets everywhere...