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Movie studios love a good fight, and a bad one too. But the Oscar battles have become trench warfare and dirty tricks. Consider the tactics: covert ops, propaganda sorties, whispered slurs and innuendo to members of the media, enough bile to fuel a Senate campaign. And lots of money. By some estimates, $15 million or more for the Beautiful Mind Oscar push, or about $2,600 each for the 5,739 voting Academy members...
...less on where it operates than how. The more capital intensive a business is, the more its executives need to know how the future is likely to take shape. Energy companies, which have to make multibillion-dollar infrastructure investments before they can draw a penny's worth of fossil fuel out of the ground, have set the standard for security and political intelligence overseas. High-tech firms, which need to determine where their competitors are headed before beginning costly research and development, have led the way in what is known as competitive intelligence...
...Washington has empowered a group of warlords of minority Tajik, Hazara and Uzbek descent to rule over the Pashtuns?Afghanistan's largest ethnic group and the bedrock of Taliban support. And by rearming the warlords to hunt down al-Qaeda and the Taliban, the U.S. has also unwittingly helped fuel further conflict. According to U.N. special representative for Afghanistan Lakhdar Brahimi, "The war against terrorism creates its own problems. In particular, you have more arms. We're trying to face the problem of the old arms that were there, but while we're collecting arms there are more being distributed...
...mean smaller and more dangerous cars. Sadly, car manufacturers have said that higher efficiency requirements will create higher costs for consumers. This may be true in the short term, but over the life of a car, the extra production cost is well worth it when the huge savings in fuel costs is taken into account...
...down an amendment to this year’s omnibus energy bill that would have increased automobile gas mileage standards for the first time since 1985. The amendment, sponsored by Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) and Sen. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.), would have raised the corporate average fuel efficiency—the average fuel efficiency for all autos sold in America—up from the current levels of 27 miles per gallon (mpg) for cars and 20.7 mpg for “light trucks.” Unfortunately, the powerful automobile industry and workers’ unions...