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With themes like this, the movie could have gotten bogged down in a desire to convey profundities. But Pippa is too good-humored and lovingly wise to be pretentious. Suky is a tragic figure, but Bello is very funny. Arkin looks silly in his flashback hairpiece, but he gives Herb...
In the end, it will come down to a game of chicken, in which consumers face off with retailers over price to see who blinks first, says AlixPartners' Eshelman. But with inventories significantly lower, the desperate markdowns may never happen. "Retailers are focused much more on profitability than on sales...
Russell Hornsby, the founder of Cepia and a former Mattel employee, had long wanted to create a robotic pet for children. During a brainstorming session in May 2008, Hornsby and his fellow Cepia execs narrowed the choices down to three: a dog, a fish and a hamster. "Out of these...
In June, GM announced that it would sell or eliminate four of its brands, including Pontiac, Saab, Hummer and Saturn. "We've been very clear that those brands were going to be sold or shut down," said a GM official, who asked not to be identified. "The expectation is that...
Although Samak had become one of Thaksin's strongest supporters in recent years, they were once bitter rivals as Deputy Prime Ministers in 1996. Both had been tasked with solving Bangkok's intractable traffic problems, but their constant squabbling led constitutional monarch King Bhumibol Adulyadej to summon them to the...