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Engine Trouble Enigmatic British billionaire Bernie Ecclestone has ruled Formula One racing for almost 30 years through a web of firms. But London's High Court last week handed Speed Investments - a consortium of Bayerische Landesbank, JPMorgan and Lehman Brothers - control over Formula One Holdings (FOH), one of the companies that runs the multibillion-dollar F1 business. Why the ruling? The banks have held a 75% stake in SLEC Holdings, a firm that controls FOH, since 2002, when the Kirch media empire, the previous stakeholder, collapsed. And the banks may now seek a greater say at two other Ecclestone firms...
...that formula didn’t translate into instant success. Despite holding a distinct edge, the Crimson (8-3-1, 6-3-1 ECAC) couldn’t capitalize on any of its scoring chances in the opening period, hitting the crossbar once and finding Fallon’s pads on several other occasions from just outside the crease...
...With Plenel in the top editor's chair from 1996, the formula seemed to work. Circulation grew from 310,000 in 1994 to 361,000 in 2002. Meanwhile, Colombani went on a buying spree, purchasing provincial titles, the TV newsmagazine Télérama and a share in a printing plant...
This is not to say that the songwriting is not at times excellent; the band has perfected and patented the formula for a good U2 song, and they show themselves in command of this on How to Dismantle... The songs are individually-wrapped candies that offer a familiar but fulfilling sensation with an ignorable degree of retread. It is short on innovation but immediately appealing in its familiarity, which is enough for now. But it means fans are still waiting for their third wave of reinvention and relevance...
Although the movie follows a fairly classic formula, Fuller’s craftsmanship subverts and redefines studio confines. Pickup on South Street depicts a realistically dark world of both vice and unchecked sentimentality and, in this respect, his 1980 film The Big Red One was a masterful encapsulation of his life-long thematic obsessions. Or, rather, it would have been...