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...Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder You don't need to prime the credit card for a decent three-course lunch in Ho Chi Minh City: the streets of Vietnam's southern capital are lined with choice selections from the country's larder, available for marvelously small sums. Take a stroll from Ben Thanh market, along Le Thanh Ton street, and stop...
...management in-house and initiated a risk-management review, while instilling his relentless bottom-line ethic throughout the business. It may take some time for Dimon to deliver the promised $3 billion of annual cost savings from the merger. But by melding his old bank's retail, credit-card and small-business strengths with JPMorgan Chase's investment-banking and asset-management prowess, Dimon has turned what some called Citigroup West into a colossus that can give Citi, as Dimon says, "a run for its money...
When U.S. Investment Group, led by U.S.-based Ripplewood Holdings, bought the bankrupt Long Term Credit Bank in 2000 and tapped Masamoto Yashiro to run it, he set out to revolutionize the industry. Since taking the helm of the bank--renamed Shinsei, or Rebirth--Yashiro, 75, has presided over one of the most successful turnarounds in Japanese corporate history. With 30 years experience at Exxon and nine more at Citibank, Yashiro has never been a member of Japan's insular financial community. "I don't follow the Japanese way of doing things," he says. Yashiro talks about competition, profitability...
...typical credit sequence for a war movie? Maybe. The newest entertainment from French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, whose most famous project, Amelie, told the story of a young Parisian woman who decided to perform random acts of kindness? Seemingly impossible, but true. Viewers expecting A Very Long Engagement to deliver a similarly light, feel-good experience might quickly have their spirits (and, perhaps, their hankies) dampened by the somber opening scene...
...credit, the picture never tries to give us simple answers to its difficult questions, but, instead, uses the parallel characters arcs of Ramon and Julia to settle upon a concentrated rumination on the value of living. “Why can’t I appreciate what I have?” Ramon asks himself breaking into tears late one night. All the way through, as if as an implicit recognition of the difficulty of its subject matter, the film implies that everything will be alright even if the desired ending is not reached...