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That's the way he operated. Greenberg was legendary for taking his business into countries that no foreigners would try and for underwriting insurance policies that no competitors would risk--and squeezing the most out of every opportunity. His global heft was so valued by the government that in the 1980s he was dispatched on state business to the Philippines, where AIG subsidiary Philippine American Life Insurance is the largest insurer. His mission: make clear to President Ferdinand Marcos that foreign investors were uneasy with the unstable government; he should step down or conduct fair elections. (Marcos didn't listen...
...powerful ambiguity in Mortensen's performance. Both films are among the most powerful and supple works of their esteemed directors. Yet the Jury gave only a thanks-for-coming Best Director prize to Haneke, and snubbed Cronenberg completely. The King isn't in their class, but it gets star heft from Mexican hottie Gael García Bernal. He plays a quietly intense young man named Elvis who insinuates himself into his long-absent father's devoutly Christian family: righteous wife (Laura Harring), rebellious son (Paul Dano) and a daughter (Pell James) searching for love, divine or carnal. The movie...
...prices. (It's worth noting that ExxonMobil's earnings are less tied to high prices than are those of other major oil companies.) To keep tabs on its spending, the company requires that all projects of $50 million or more--a small figure for a company of ExxonMobil's heft--must go before a five-member management committee for approval. "They've decided that throwing money at stuff doesn't make sense, unlike oil companies in the past that got high prices and went crazy," says Susan Byrne, chairman of Dallas-based Westwood Management, an investment firm that owns ExxonMobil...
...with slow-motion artistry. The attractive cast can sell an obsession or articulate a conundrum with equal fervor. Eva Green, in the token-girl role every action epic needs, has a classic movie star's beauty and allure, and Bloom has matured splendidly (the beard helps). He gives Balian heft and winsomeness as a pensive man of action...
...good news: it is important for the young to stay lean, but a little heft helps people live longer, according to a federal researcher at the Gerontology Research Center in Baltimore. The bad news: many obesity and cardiovascular specialists say that lifelong leanness is still the desirable goal...