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...Unlike Moore's movies, Spurlock's don't split their seams with ideas and nervous energy. For all their edifying political ambitions, they are closer to doper comedies, with Spurlock as a Cheech, Bill or Harold searching for a Chong, Ted or Kumar. (In his new movie, during a visit to an Orthodox neighborhood in Israel, he actually addresses one Hasidic man as "Dude.") Here's this guy doing these nutty things - all those McNuggets, all those Muslims - and behaving as if he'd just taken a toke of something stronger than a Marlboro Lite. In the recent history...
...issuance of international passports, which Uighurs now say has been halted until after the Olympic Games in August. (An official surnamed Wu at the Foreign Affairs Department in Khotan said he wasn't aware of such a policy.) Some Uighurs, who are a central Asian people ethnically much closer to Turks than Chinese, expressed fears that their culture and way of life could be threatened by a steady influx of Han Chinese. The wave of immigration has seen the Han share of the province's population - estimated at about 6% in 1949 - rise to an official 40%, a figure that...
...acquisition of V&S brings Pernod Ricard closer than ever to its goal of catching Diageo. The combined company will have global sales of 91 million cases, compared with Diageo's 93 million. Absolut alone will propel Pernod Ricard from fourth place to second in the North American market, with a 14% market share, compared with Diageo's 26%. Can the former pastis family business become the global drinks leader? The banks that financed the deal in a difficult market show that for some, at least, the answer to that question is Absolut...
...airlines are trying to patch together closer alliances through investment or gain strength through mergers. Lufthansa recently bought a 19% stake in JetBlue, hoping to take advantage of JetBlue's strong presence in New York City to expand its reach with U.S. passengers. On April 14, Delta and Northwest agreed to a $3 billion merger, and a Continental-United union could be next. "Foreign carriers are merging to grow larger and financially stronger, and U.S. carriers have to match that to remain competitive," says Giovanni Bisignani, head of the International Air Transport Association...
...overhauling the way the firm manages. One component gives work teams substantially more feedback on how they help the company as a whole. Imagine a chemical engineer in a Tylenol plant logging onto a system that shows how his factory's output feeds into divisional output--and how much closer that brings the company to its quarterly goals. "We believe this really creates commitment," says Kuschel. Once you're committed, the thinking goes, you work harder and make the company more money...