Word: lawson
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...company, an effective bar to a takeover bid. For these reasons VW's share price languishes at 1997 levels. "The feeling is that the management in place has tended to give low priorities to investors, having several other constituencies that come higher up the attention screen," says John Lawson, who follows the auto business at Schroder Salomon Smith Barney in London. Adds Ekkehard Wenger, an economist at the University of Würzburg and a vocal corporate gadfly in Germany: "Volkswagen doesn't exist to serve shareholder value, it exists as part of the patronage structure of Lower Saxony...
...CANADA: Something must be going on north of the border. Kirkus salutes another Canadian first novel: "Crow Lake" by Mary Lawson (Dial; March 5), giving it a starred review. "A finely crafted debut looks back to a young woman's harshly beautiful childhood in rural Canada...A simple and heartfelt account that conveys an astonishing intensity of emotion, almost Proustian in its sense of loss and regret...
...look at life on the Kenyan savanna. (Adam appears in episode two, entitled 'Desert Odyssey.') The series aims to show aspects of Africa far-removed from the famine, war and disease of popular perception. "So few people in America really know about Africa," says co-executive producer Jennifer Lawson. "I wanted to give people a better view, a more complex and comprehensive view of Africa...
...tropical diseases. But they're driven by a desire to show a different side of Africa. "By concentrating on the lives of ordinary people we offer a viewers a point of connection," says producer-director Harvey Lilley. "People are getting bored of simple wildlife films about Africa." Adds Lawson, "We've had so many films about Europe, Australia, but we rarely see features on Africa. Our history as African-Americans has such...
...better sort of world, a book like Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations (Vintage; 285 pages) wouldn't exist. For a start, it would have been a completed book: author John Diamond, a popular Times columnist and the husband of the TV culinary goddess Nigella Lawson, died of cancer in March after writing just six chapters of an "uncomplimentary view of complementary medicine." That unfinished text - cut off, spookily, almost in midthought - is rounded out by an anthology of Diamond's newspaper columns, which show off his first-class deadline wit. (A story about being forced by his Hassidic computer repairman...