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...these past six years. Indeed, OYAK is now the third largest business in the nation, behind the conglomerates owned by the Sabanci and Koc families. Its rapidly growing profits this decade have ensured that military officers now get substantial lump sums when they retire. Coskun Ulusoy, a military-history buff with an economics doctorate from Pittsburgh University who heads the organization, knows that OYAK won't be able to continue increasing the payout at the same rate as it has been. (Last year it was up more than 50%.) And he's sober about the nation's prospects overall...
...huge opera buff, but my exposure to classic opera has suggested that the sensibility of that is quite different from what I'm doing. That's not arrogance; it's just a statement of fact. And I think there's a desire in the world of opera to modernize. There's such an appearance these days of modern operas done often by directors who are not versed in classic opera, often film directors. If the art form is to survive and to have new audiences, than there have to be new operas. And they can't have the same sensibility...
...would be easy to cast Tata Motors as the villain in this story - it is run by a super-wealthy car buff who comes from one of India's most famous industrialist families. But the real - and much less colorful - bad guy in the Singur debacle is India's misguided industrial development policy. India wants booming manufacturing hubs like the ones that have transformed Chinese cities like Shenzhen. But instead of creating a handful of large special economic zones, or SEZs, and locating them strategically near ports and cities with large pools of labor, India has approved more than...
...with Photoshopped, Pilates-toned, silicone-enhanced models, it's hard to maintain any kind of perspective on what a real person is supposed to look like. And while that's long been true for girls, it's increasingly true for boys, who now must measure themselves against waxed and buff athletes and models who are steadily raising the male-attractiveness bar higher and higher...
...Segel has written himself a good part as the amiable, emotionally underdeveloped and not exactly buff Peter, and as an actor he finds the right line for this doofus to tread. He edges up to the farcical, but then backs off to more plausible sorts of confusion. He allows you feel for the guy. Most of us, at one time or another, have been jilted and tried to struggle back from despair and that grounds this comedy in a certain reality, which is not allowed to become oppressive...