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...that in 1942, the Academy gave its top awards, Best Picture and Director, to John Ford's How Green Was My Valley, a poignant evocation of a Welsh mining town. Fine, honorable, fully worthy. The film it beat: Citizen Kane. Who needs all those low-angle shots, the deep-focus cinematography, the oblique, multifaceted view of a powerful publisher? Those aren't innovations; they're ostentations - cinematic showing off. Thus the Academy blew its chance to give due homage to what is still considered the greatest American movie. (See the top 10 Oscar-nomination snubs...
...exaggerating when I say Europe's obsession with restructuring its internal arrangements is akin to rearranging the deck chairs of a sinking Titanic. The focus on internal challenges when the real threats are external is the first of three strategic errors Europe is making. One does not have to be a geopolitical genius to figure out where Europe's main long-term challenges are coming from. The E.U. may be a comfortable oasis of peace now, free of the threat of wars between member states. But an aging Europe cannot ignore the rising population and Islamic anger in North Africa...
...national prominence made him a natural choice for the Olympic-flame spot - a free three-minute commercial that has passed into ambush-marketing legend. But in assessing his company's handling of Olympics opportunities it would be unfair to focus on that piece of good fortune alone. The truth is, his team began planning well in advance (662 days, by the count of CEO Zhang Zhiyong), focusing on bang-for-buck sponsorship choices. Knowing, for instance, that the U.S. Dream Team would wind up in the basketball finals, but that its NBA-star-packed roster would be too pricey...
...Today, Ctrip holds 54% of China's online travel market by revenue, according to CLSA, versus 10% for challenger eLong, which is majority-owned by Expedia and has followed a more fitful progression - initially offering vacation packages, but temporarily withdrawing them in 2007 to focus on air tickets and hotels. Both players offer nearly identical prices, so customer service is a key point of difference. While Chinese Web users have become more sophisticated about researching prices on the Internet, they still prefer to buy tickets by phone (just 35% of Ctrip's customers buy their air tickets via the website...
...well as the most powerful. But even the mainstream opposition sees an opening. Take the Yabloko Party. It had led the pro-Western forces in parliament throughout the 1990s before being voted out in 2007 in an election it says was rigged. Kaliningrad has helped turn its focus to the streets. "The outlying regions are in a better mood for protests," its leader, Sergei Mitrokhin, tells TIME. "Kaliningrad shed light on all the vices of the current regime and its economic policies, and it has led us to activate our regional branches. We have been carrying out a series...