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...dynamo from such hard-hitting films as the Die Hard trilogy and Armageddon turns into an emotional wreck in Hostage. The former John McClane is here an ex-negotiator, harrowed by a past tragedy, forced back into the business of life and death when a benign car theft in his sleepy town goes wrong...
...chance we must use. Unless we guarantee safe business and protection of property rights we have no trust, and no trust means no investment." For now, the privatizing action is a matter for the courts, which two weeks ago cleared the way for a resale of the popular Dynamo football club. There are bound to be protracted legal challenges to come. Pinchuk and Akhmetov are said to be trying to work out a behind-the-scenes deal for the steel mill, but they have also filed their appeal. Pinchuk's lawyer Serhiy Vlasenko told the daily Kyiv Post last month...
...digitally dominant companies like General Electric and Lexmark International into top management posts. After his first COO, Patricia Russo, left to head up Lucent, he replaced her in April 2003 with Antonio Perez, 59, a former Hewlett Packard exec who had nursed its printer division into a $10 billion dynamo. "I think people will have more confidence in this strategy if they know Antonio is actively involved," says Carp, laughing...
...than Monsoon Wedding. "It was 17-hour days for four weeks," says Lewis. "Mira's eyes were just wide and beaming through all of it. She's the most visionary director I've ever worked with." Naseeruddin Shah, who plays the father in Monsoon Wedding, adds: "She's a dynamo. We'd be filming at 3 a.m., and she'd still be generating this energy that affected us all." Vanity Fair star Witherspoon was similarly struck by Nair's zest for the intensity and chaos of filmmaking: "We shot in India for three days, and she had 300 extras...
...another shoulder reconstruction she was seen as the dependable No. 2, lingering in the shadow of a now-retired rival known as Madame Butterfly. Jodie Henry, 20, was not known outside swimming circles. She, too, had experienced tough times in a short career. Her nerves could reduce the sprinting dynamo to a heaving wreck. But by the end of the eight-day Olympic swimming meet, the two Australians had come into their own - and the limelight - as the standout females at the pool, each taking home three gold medals."There were times when I never knew...