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...only helped design a Mercedes plant in Alabama but also merged GM's information technology with its South Korean partner, Daewoo Motors. At Tata, Sage plans to cash in on outsourcing; a group of Tata engineers is already writing code for GM and Chrysler. A carpenter's grandson, Sage, 51, leaves behind more than IBM as he departs for India; he now has to sell the log cabin he built deep in the woods of Michigan...
...undoubtedly the best animated feature released in 2003. Sylvain Chomet’s film aims for a multinational texture and is largely devoid of dialogue, but nevertheless retains a distinctly French sensibility with a penchant for shrewd cultural allusions. A clubfooted widow, Madame Souza, trains her chubby grandson Champion to become a stick-thin cyclist with the help of bulky canine Bruno and her restless whistle. One day, Champion is mysteriously kidnapped, along with two of his fellow Tour de France riders, by amusingly ominous members of the French mafia. In hot pursuit, Madame Souza travels to the Dionysian metropolis...
...undoubtedly the best animated feature released in 2003. Sylvain Chomet’s film aims for a multinational texture and is largely devoid of dialogue, but nevertheless retains a distinctly French sensibility with a penchant for shrewd cultural allusions. A clubfooted widow, Madame Souza, trains her chubby grandson Champion to become a stick-thin cyclist with the help of bulky canine Bruno and her restless whistle. One day, Champion is mysteriously kidnapped, along with two of his fellow Tour de France riders, by amusingly ominous members of the French mafia. In hot pursuit, Madame Souza travels to the Dionysian metropolis...
Iraqis weren’t alone in the bloodletting, which takes place annually in Lebanon, Iran, and other parts of the Shiite world as part of Ashura, the holiday which commemorates the martyrdom of the Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Mohammed who Shiites believe should have been recognized as the spiritual leader of Islam at the end of the seventh century...
DIED. F. BOOKER NOE II, 74, former master distiller of Jim Beam bourbon; after a long illness; in Bardstown, Ky. A grandson of Jim Beam, who ran the family company from 1892 until 1944, Noe worked for almost 50 years at the distillery and in 1988 created Booker's Bourbon, an undiluted, unfiltered small-batch whiskey that helped establish a new market for bourbon, which had been left behind by the growing popularity of vodka...