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With the results of Datamatch sent out, discussion has also arisen about the “secret algorithm” that Datamatch uses to match people. The members of HCS were decidedly coy, saying only that the algorithm is complex and intricate...
...when Eichinger set out to make The Baader Meinhof Complex, about a group of 1960s radicals who carried out a 30-year campaign of bombings, killings, and kidnappings in Germany, it was clear that he would tell the tale with the subtlety of a sawed-off shotgun. "I wanted to make a movie about what they did," says Eichinger. "I'm not interested in the psychology, in the Freudian aspect of this at all. I am not trying to prove a point. I want to demystify them." (See pictures of animated movies, including Waltz with Bashir, the favorite for Best...
...More than 2.4 million Germans saw The Baader Meinhof Complex when it came out, to mixed reviews, last September, and now it's in the running for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars on Feb. 22. Directed by Uli Edel - who called the shots on Eichinger's first hit - the film focuses on West Germany in the '60s, when a group of largely middle class youth led by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Enslin broke off from the massive anti-Vietnam War student protests and, calling themselves the Red Army Faction (more commonly known outside Germany...
...Bank ownership becomes more complex when a firm owned by the government does something materially different from what its competitors in the private sector do. If bank owned by the government offers business loans at 3% interest, what does a foreign-based public bank like DeutscheBank do to match that? A government-owned bank can be driven, at least short-term, by policy and not profits. That puts financial firms in the private sector in peril whenever they try to compete. The relationship between a national U.S. bank and private banks both inside and outside the U.S. causes a series...
...Nearby is the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, a modern, multi-media complex that houses one of the best collections of Lincoln materials in the world. As Illinois State Historian Thomas Schwartz explained to me recently, Springfield had the good fortune to have a Lincoln buff serving as governor during the Great Depression. He budgeted for acquisitions at a time when prices were low. "We were able to collect material at a time when there was not much interest and not much money...