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This should not be surprising. Fighting wars is a difficult business. Success depends on an identity of goals between soldiers and their political masters, and a clear chain of command. That's hard to achieve when a force is made up of various nationalities. Even friends don't always agree. There are no closer allies than the U.S. and Britain, but when U.S. General Wesley Clark, then Supreme Commander of NATO forces, asked the British in June 1999 to stop Russian troops from taking control of Pristina airport at the end of the Kosovo war, London bluntly refused. (The precise...
...Clearly, this is all part of the whole 'Oh, my God, we have an obesity epidemic' thing." HOPE WARSHAW, dietitian and author of Eat Out, Eat Right, on the Applebee's chain's deal with Weight Watchers to offer low-calorie alternatives on its menu...
...tech world was still in denial, Rollins slashed 5,700 jobs while stepping into his current role as COO. "We saw the downturn coming," says Rollins. "Because of our direct-sales model, we were talking to suppliers and customers daily." Next step: Dell got aggressive on the supply chain, cutting inventory from seven days to three and building to order only. The company slashed prices at home, then turned abroad. Competitors scoffed at the idea of selling direct overseas, but unit shipments to China, Japan, France and Germany were up 39% in the first quarter over the same period last...
...Berlin Louvre. Like so much else in Berlin, Wertheim fell victim first to the Nazis and then to the postwar communist rulers of East Germany. Most of the Jewish Wertheim family members fled Germany or were killed at Auschwitz, and the property was nationalized after the war. Another retail chain, Hertie, long ago swallowed up the firm's remaining assets in West Germany. And today, the spot where Wertheim's flagship store once stood is an empty wasteland directly opposite the Bundesrat, the upper house of parliament. But Wertheim hasn't disappeared into the history book - far from...
...arty cineplex The Chain Reaction Somewhere between multiplex chain and art house lies the Groupe MK2. With 58 screens in 10 locations around Paris playing everything from Swiss documentaries to The Hulk, MK2 has fans among cinephiles and general moviegoers alike. Founder Marin Karmitz, 64, started his first cinema in 1974, near the Bastille. "I felt the time had come to approach cinema differently," says the Romanian émigré. "Opening that first theater was a reaction to the existing run-down art-house scene, a way to bring films in their original languages to Paris neighborhoods." Today, an average...