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...language with more expensive ones. They use the same accessories and logo, the keypads look similar and the body of the low-tier phones is made of a high-quality plastic that looks and feels like brushed metal. When a farmer in rural India spends a third of his household's monthly income on a phone, she says, "we want to make sure that people are proud of what they have." The strategy is modeled on Nokia's. By far the leader in India, with 65% of the market, Nokia pioneered the portfolio approach to selling phones in a developing...
...answer: Viagra. Lots of it. But stamina is only one problem that Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton) has. He keeps his wives Barb, Margene and Nicki (Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ginnifer Goodwin and Chloë Sevigny) in adjacent houses, where they run the extended household jointly but harbor simmering jealousies. ("Officially," he tells Margene when she asks if he missed her, "I miss you guys all the same.") He has to keep the arrangement semisecret because polygamy is illegal in Utah and banned by the mainstream Mormon Church, or Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). Oh, and one of his fathers...
Vicki Ho, 42, is one of them. To make it in GE's famously competitive culture, Ho says she needed to shed her Asian-style modesty. In her Taiwanese household, she was raised never to boast of her accomplishments. She entered the corporate world in the U.S. as an unwitting embodiment of stereotypical Asian female behavior--"diminutive, submissive, that whole geisha thing you get tagged with," she says. (It's a typical problem for Asian women executives, although one that few employers recognize, says Jane Hyun, an executive coach and author of Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: "Here...
...enjoy it, but I don’t take it too seriously,” he says of his status as a household name...
...tremendously funny film. But its humor is rooted in the intractable narcissism and brutal selfishness of its protagonists. One laughs during “Squid” not out of delight, but in recognition of human stupidity at its apogee. The worst offender in this respect is household head Bernard Berkman (Jeff Daniels): he is a novelist whose literary reputation is diminishing in inverse proportion to his sense of entitlement and self-worth. For example, when asked by his teenaged son whether or not to bother reading “The Metamorphosis” he replies: “Kafka...