Word: cheapness
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Audi's been a consistent winner of the 24-hour race at Le Mans, and the R8's bloodlines flow directly from those victories. The low-slung, squat R8 grips the road with comforting authority. Likewise, it navigates twisty country roads with commanding agility. Such performance doesn't come cheap. The $112,500 price is more than for most Mercedes and BMW roadsters, but less than what you'd pay for, say, a Ferrari or Lamborghini...
...toward China and India and Brazil. There's always been this kind of residual fear over Russia," says Roland Nash, head of research at Renaissance Capital, a Moscow-based investment bank. Still, he adds, "Eventually what will drive people back into the market is the fact that there are cheap assets here." BMW, Enel, L'Oréal and all the other foreign companies continuing to crowd into Russia wouldn't disagree...
...about A Little Bit Longer, it's that the Jonases seem a little bit too comfortable making comfortable music. No one still harbors any illusions that rock musicians need to upset generational harmony, but the songs slot so neatly into the late-'70s template set by the Cars and Cheap Trick--and the Jonases are still so young--that it's easy to wonder if they're performing their own taste or that of their dad, who is also their co-manager. This may explain the presence of some weird banter at the beginning of songs and a few theatrically...
This year the Chinese women have staked their claim to a sport that has long been the stomping ground of the U.S., Brazil and Australia. With its cheap beer, goading deejay, bikini-clad cheerleaders and 80s pop hits cranked between points, the Chaoyang Park stadium seems more Manhattan Beach than Middle Kingdom...
...Powell Doctrine of overwhelming force has just been used effectively - and not by the U.S., which tried to prevail on the cheap with its 2003 invasion of Iraq. This time around, it might as well be rechristened the Putin Doctrine, given what the Russian military has done to Georgia over the past two weeks. In the aftermath, assorted soldiers and graybeards in the Pentagon, the National Security Council and government warrens around the world are evaluating the military lessons of Moscow's move into the Caucasus. Just what does it mean for the way war is waged in the 21st...