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...Evans, the Army's efforts are much more than a business-school exercise. "This is not only an economic transformation but a huge cultural change," he says. In the corner of every office at Red River, and on all the shop floors, stands a black cutout figure of a soldier with a helmet and rifle at the ready as a constant reminder of who the customer is and that the smallest errors can have the most serious consequences on the battlefield. A sign affixed to the front of the silhouette soldier says, WE BUILD IT AS IF OUR LIVES DEPEND...
...tent festooned with blue and white ribbons and balloons outside the Science Center yesterday, students dressed up a life-size cardboard cutout of Paris Hilton to suit different climates in regions of Israel...
...Beatty's Reds, it calls on witnesses to describe and argue about its theme. But both sources are compromised by the directorial sneer. Keaton rarely lets a remark or a film sequence run complete; instead she bends its intent to her skewed reading. The interviewees are photographed through cookie-cutout shadows, distracting the audience as well as the subjects. These are the techniques of a filmmaker short on trust, and the condescending tone rankles throughout. Sitting through Heaven is like a painful promotion to glory...
...have stopped relying on government sponsorship which was drying up anyway) and found allies in the marketplace. Mark Zupan, one of the "stars" of Murderball, will be part of Reebok's "I Am What I Am" campaign. And at the Cinemark multiplex in Long Beach, Calif., a 6-ft. cutout display of Rize rubs cardboard shoulders with a life-size Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie...
...luxury car. To Khan, Tahir became indispensable. He divided his time between Kuala Lumpur (his wife is Malaysian) and Dubai. Through his connections in Malaysia, Tahir arranged for centrifuge components to be manufactured at a publicly traded company called Scomi Precision Engineering. Back in Dubai, he set up a cutout company called SMB Computers, which was a front for Khan's proliferation business. Ultimately, components manufactured at Scomi were sold via SMB to Libya as "used machinery"--part of the $100 million contract with Gaddafi's government...