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...film Goodbye Lenin!, a sweet-tempered comedy about a son who protects the feelings of his ailing mother by pretending the Wall is still standing and the G.D.R. is intact. That may be an amusing concept for most cinemagoers. For many east Germans, struggling to find their feet in the new realities of a reunited Germany, and missing the rigid certainties of life in a totalitarian state, it struck a deeper chord. In retrospect the G.D.R. really didn't seem all that malign, just a bit comical with its puttering cars, camp displays of military might and empty shelves...
...marketers powerful opportunities because it can build brand awareness like TV, let advertisers "talk" directly to consumers on a one-to-one basis, and do hard-nosed selling like direct mail. "It uses every step of the digital channel," says Collier. And advertisers seem to be voting with their feet. Consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates that online advertising spending in Europe, the Middle East and Africa will reach $91.7 million in 2009, an 80% jump from 2004 levels. The resurrection of online advertising is a welcome payoff for Dare, a pioneering and cutting-edge agency that Collier, the former head of London...
...finally turns for the slit doorway. "Let me get outta here," he says. "I'm hit pretty bad." But the battle goes on: below the Marines' outpost, al-Qaeda fighters toting AK-47s dart in and out of view. As blood from Sardinas and Wilson pools at his feet, Sergeant William Morrow grips the grenade launcher. A fellow Marine spots an insurgent in the open. "Waste his ass," Tasayco urges as they open fire on the enemy below...
...safety in the past. He gives them kudos for getting the city's levees "back to where we were" before Katrina--but that's also what worries him as the city prepares for a new storm season. Every levee, says Daniel, is still too low by a couple of feet because the Corps didn't calculate for the ground subsiding. "If they find other areas that were a hairline away from failure before, they need to fix those right away," he says...
...different parts of the state: Yovy Suarez Jimenez, 28, was killed in Sunrise, just north of Miami, and Judy Cooper, 43, was found 20 miles north of St. Petersburg. Although nobody witnessed either attack, authorities believe that Jimenez was sitting at the edge of a canal, dangling her feet in the water, when she was seized by an alligator and dragged in. And there is no reason to believe that Cooper was swimming...