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...Lions for Lambs, Hollywood brought its heaviest star artillery yet to a film about the Iraq mess. Tom Cruise, Streep and Robert Redford (he also directed) were the big guns in a civics lesson that blamed politicians, the media and the public. By doing wrong or doing nothing, we failed our troops, our country and our better selves. Cruise's first film for his United Artists proved a mission: impossible. It grossed a measly $6.7 million its opening weekend...
...that the data can teach us, keep in mind that the nature of a ranking masks certain economic realities of a globalized world. The ability of countries to raise their citizens' standard of living is not a zero-sum game. Nearly 200 years ago, Ricardo gave a detailed lesson about comparative advantage: when two economies interact, they both can benefit even if one is more advanced across the board. That's why South Korea invests in North Korea, which is in some respects an economic black hole. At the end of the day, both can be winners...
...burgeoning VHS technology. “We were told it was experimental material,” says Jeffrey D. Melvoin ’75, a writer and producer, explaining how the networks and studios negotiated contacts with limited residual payments for new media. “We learned a lesson back then because we made a mistake. We did not calculate correctly the impact technology would have.” Today, however, the point of contention between writers and the AMPTP is the profit seen from downloaded and streaming versions of digital content.“Whenever they develop...
...fast that "we can't get to the next level without changing." Still, to get everyone to buy into the idea, Brabeck characteristically has set up a working group of national managers, including Weller, to figure out how to make the changes work in practice. That's another lesson the mountains taught him. "You learn very early on that you're better off working in a team," Brabeck says. "It's how you'll survive. There's nothing worse than having a weak team on the mountain." That, and unforeseen bad weather...
...What's more, with George Mitchell's report on baseball's sordid steroid history due out by the end of the year, the owners wouldn't be dumb enough to toss another scandal into the off-season mix, right? "Hopefully, baseball has learned its lesson from the past," says Karcher. "From a business perspective, they're doing so well from so many different standpoints, I'd just be surprised if collusion would take place." But remember, we're talking about baseball here, where there's always room for another botched play...