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...free beer. "That aspect is gone - the caring, sharing company," says Glennon wistfully. "Everyone knows that you're just part of a multinational." Maybe so, but in the cutthroat environment of today's beer market, being part of a multinational is all but essential. Most Western beer markets are flat - Guinness sales in Ireland fell 6% by volume from June 2003 to June 2004 - and more and more breweries are being snapped up by behemoths like London-based SABMiller and Belgium's InBev. Guinness is typical: since 1997 it's been a part of the British beverage conglomerate Diageo, which...
...other executives took more than $400 million from the company. Black denies the allegations. But the excesses noted in the report, including those cited here, should interest the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which has launched its own investigation into the company: The Apartment Swap The Blacks "swapped" their flat for one that Hollinger owned in the same building, diverting "a $2.5 million value from Hollinger to Black" The F.D.R. Papers Black had Hollinger "pay $8.9 million to acquire Franklin D. Roosevelt papers and memorabilia without ... board approval." He was writing a biography of F.D.R. at the time Lavish Galas...
...unheard-of deal in these days of ever-shrinking funnies: an entire full-color page with total editorial freedom. The book nearly replicates their original monumental size on super thick cardstock paper. You read each strip horizontally across two pages but thanks to the clever binding, each strip lies flat, without an annoying gutter in the middle...
...spectacle of one another. What?s wrong with this picture? From a distance some of the figures have the heft and stability of Mesopotamian statuary. But step closer, and they dissolve into a force field of bristling molecules. Step back again, and they also appear like paper cutouts, flat and stiff. Are they enjoying themselves or just impersonating themselves? It won?t do to ask the monumental couple on the right - he with the cigar, she with the monkey. Like just about everyone else in this painting, both have the immobile gaze of the Sphinx...
...have--these so-called seat-beds in business class. Twenty-seven have even more luxurious accommodations in first class. The only U.S. carrier to offer a business-class seat-bed, Northwest Airlines, has the kind that lies at an angle, with the foot below the head, rather than perfectly flat. In a recent survey by Skytrax, a British firm that tracks travel trends, only three carriers received the top rating for their business-class seat-beds: South African, Virgin and British Airways. --By Sally B. Donnelly