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...Keenan and the six auto-body shops he owns in suburban Philadelphia may look unassuming, but they are, in fact, battlegrounds in the latest incarnation of the rental-car wars--a fight to grab neighborhood business from market leader Enterprise Rent-A-Car. For years, Keenan was a loyal promoter of Enterprise rentals to customers who needed a replacement car. Then he got a call from Hertz, which was looking to branch away from Philadelphia's airport and downtown and into the local market. After thorough negotiating, including a driving tour to show a Hertz executive the locations...
...clear for months. But Weinberg is used to taking gambles. A graduate of France's élite Ecole Nationale d'Administration, he gave up a safe career in government to become an investment banker before moving to PPR in 1992. At the time, the firm was a messy grab bag of French-focused industrial and retail companies. Weinberg masterminded the shift to luxury. "The demonstration needs to be made that several brands can really flourish in a multibrand group," he says. He plans to be the man who proves it. --By Peter Gumbel/Paris
Engagement shares with Tarantino’s work an intense, painful depiction of graphic violence: early on, each of the five men is shown wounding himself in hopes of going home—they shoot themselves in the hand and cry out, grab onto the barrels of hot machine guns and writhe in pain. But here, it serves a different purpose: rather than extending the narrative, it gives it greater meaning. Under its influence, characters are humanized, and actions which might otherwise seem horrible or disgusting become understandable...
...latest string of Internet questionnaires (“memes”) that have graced my monitor have consisted mostly of questions that I wouldn’t answer in such a public forum. Instead, I will devise my own list especially tailored to our lives. Grab a pen and join in the fun! And if you know the etymology of “meme,” please shoot me an email. Here I present to you this year’s stats, divided into easily digestible categories. (Who says humanities people can’t do math...
...Chessmaster, that’s just what I am. I’m a Life National Master in the U.S. Chess Federation. But that’s too long to fit on the sign or to grab people’s attention...