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...weary of the bureaucracy and expense required to keep regulators satisfied. And Mark Pacitti, a corporate finance partner at consultants Deloitte in London, notes that "private equity will make the difficult decisions that established [public] companies may be reluctant to do." Such cold-bloodedness is what evokes the "locust" comparison; so far, though, that hasn't been bad for business. - By Peter Gumbel Leapfrogging Rock Stars When British rockers Coldplay released the first track off their new CD last week, you could almost sense the relief at record label EMI. Chairman Eric Nicoli partly blamed a 13% dip in annual...
...Performs The combined city/highway rating for the 400h is 29 m.p.g.?close to the 26 m.p.g. we got in more than 200 miles of test driving. In comparison, a Lexus RX 330, which is identical to the 400h but runs on a standard gas engine, got only 14 m.p.g. on our tests. At start-up and in slow city traffic, the 400h runs solely on its silent electric motors, making for a peaceful commute. The 400h handled well, accelerated quickly and quietly engaged its gas engine. Because the 400h has a power output similar to that of a 4-liter...
...film centers such as Prague, where blockbuster Mission: Impossible was shot; even staunchly British characters like James Bond and Harry Potter may soon be eastward bound. Should British studios be worried? Generous tax breaks for film producers in Hungary mean "U.K. studios have suddenly become much more expensive" in comparison, says London filmmaker Jonathan Schutz. "Hollywood is looking elsewhere." But does Bond like goulash? - By John Nadler...
...into a minor detective story as a correspondent for the London Times discovers the similarity between Protocols and a nearly forgotten French parody of Napoleon III. A major portion of The Plot compares passages from both sources in an effort to expose the obvious similarities and outright plagiaries, a comparison that the Times used to declare The Protocols a fake in 1921. The final, melancholy third of The Plot examines the enduring virus of Protocols, which, in spite of numerous, incontrovertible findings of being wholly forged, continues to be published the world over as truth. Eisner puts himself...
...size of Sinopec’s Sudanese venture pales in comparison to that of PetroChina’s parent, the China National Petroleum Company (CNPC), which has poured billions into the East African country, according to Peter S. Goodman, the Shanghai bureau chief of the Washington Post...