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...George Clooney's movie about Murrow is, at best, unimposing. Focusing on Murrow's conflict with Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose campaign against an alleged domestic communist conspiracy redefined (at least until recently) political cynicism in the U.S., Murrow (well enough played by David Strathairn) becomes in the film a chain smoker in a suit, making pretty, unexceptionable speeches in support of the First Amendment. They are unshadowed by doubt or fear or, indeed, any sense of what made Murrow and his producer, Fred Friendly (whom Clooney plays), such virtuously embattled figures. The movie's appeal is all in its style...
TIME: It seems like a lot of trouble to open up this space and then close it in three months. Why not just open a retail café chain...
...past few seasons, fashion--even in this creative capital--has become an extravagantly commercial endeavor. Every-where you look there are $1,200 handbags with exotic gewgaws like padlocks or python patches or chain-link straps. There's nothing wrong with success, of course, but people can stay excited about handbags for only so long. Every now and then, designers need to send shock waves through the fashion system, if only just to keep its heart racing. And in Paris the real designers did just that...
...automakers: unit labor costs that are among the highest in the world, productivity that's been overtaken by many rivals and worries about losing its technological edge. In a blunt letter to Mercedes employees announcing the layoffs, Zetsche wrote that "our costs in all parts of the value chain are significantly higher than those of the best competitors" and that the company was dragging around too much production capacity. Becker, the former BMW economist, contends in a book published last month that the glory years of the German auto industry are history and that as much...
...page tome, speaks of the frosty landscape of Antarctica, the 200-ton stone figures of Easter Island, and the towering Egyptian pyramids in tones of awe. But figuratively nestled among these geographic gems is a more unlikely wonder: Legal Sea Foods, the family-run, 50-year-old seafood restaurant chain based in Boston...