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...December, Kleinfeld was caught by surprise during a visit to the company's industrial-steam-turbine business in G??rlitz, a provincial city on the Neisse River, which divides Germany and Poland. Kleinfeld walked into a meeting with about 200 of the division's staff, shook a few hands and launched into a pep talk in German. As he started to hit his stride, many of the division's top executives looked on dumbfounded. Then Rene Umlauft, the division CEO, intervened, waving his hand at Kleinfeld and forcing him to stop midsentence. "Excuse me, Mr. Kleinfeld," said Umlauft...
...there are still very few non-Germans in high executive positions, they are becoming more common. For example, a year ago, Umlauft needed a director for global sales. "Everyone expected me to appoint a German," he says. "But I hired a guy out of India. He's now in G??rlitz, and he's a great sales...
Twenty-eight years after publishing his wildly successful, Pulitzer Prize-winning book “G??del, Escher, Bach,” Douglas Hofstadter has produced a piece that is beyond brilliant. The book sits on shelves with its cover proclaiming, “I Am a Strange Loop.” And, as we would expect, Hofstadter’s new masterpiece is indeed a strange loop, but one that deserves close attention.“I Am a Strange Loop” sets out to probe the essence of the soul—in a philosophical, cognitive...
...Franco has been skulking around the edges of the films. He's been ready for his bad-guy close-up for five years now, so, as he says, "it wasn't like I had to practice a villainous cackle or anything like that." This time, Peter has a triple-g??nger: as he recognizes and fights his own weakness for celebrity, he's up against Harry, who must avenge his father's death by killing Peter-Spider. "It's two superhumans battling it out," Franco says, "but it also has a personal element, like two brothers fighting...
...maybe Spider-Man 3 has a quadruple-g??nger. Peter also must confront his photographer rival Eddie Brock (a.k.a. Venom), played by Topher Grace. "He gets very similar powers to Spider-Man; they work in the same place, they're after the same girls," he says. The difference: Grace can be extreme without worrying about breaking character. "When you play a protagonist, a bell goes off every time you do something outside the range of normal behavior," Grace says. "But when you're a psycho from outer space, there's something very freeing. With great powers comes great...