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Pierre Sabourin, a venture capitalist and former amateur hockey player, has been so successful at losing weight, having dropped 165 lbs. on a rice diet, that he wants to share his secrets with others. But at 435 lbs., he is still keenly aware how hard it is for a wide body to navigate the many narrow armchairs and undersize seat belts of daily life. So even as he works excitedly to promote his just opened weight-loss camp, The Living Center, in Durham, N.C., Sabourin, 43, is operating a complementary business. He sells hard-to-find products to other folks...
Here, the themes of the film emerge, as these individuals express what Moss calls “a kind of continuousness of values between then and now.” The film tries to reject the conventional portrayal of the hippie-gone-capitalist, instead suggesting that the river that embodied their youthful freedom still directs their lives in different ways...
...laptops in his Leverett single attest. The scores of cardboard boxes that crowd his common room, marked with magical names like “Goldman Sachs” and “Morgan Stanley,” might also fool you into thinking that Darst is just another ruthless capitalist. But he’s on his way to curing tuberculosis in the Third World. And he likes ballet...
...government launched massive public-works projects designed to rebuild a smashed infrastructure, provide jobs and spur internal demand. For the domestic industries, Japan pursued consistently protectionist, anti-competitive policies, with the intention of keeping as many companies afloat as possible. "Ten percent of the country was allowed to be capitalist, and the other 90% was socialist," says Eisuke Sakakibara, director of the Global Security Research Center at Keio University and a former vice minister of finance. He's not really joking. Antitrust laws were virtually nonexistent, cartels flourished and high tariffs pushed away foreign entrants...
...longer "any credible threat" from Jemaah Islamiah cells inside the island republic. But as terror expert Zachary Abuza points out, ultimately, a successful attack in Singapore remains top of the wish list for JI, even if achieving that takes years. "Singapore has enormous symbolic importance as the capitalist center of the region," says Abuza...