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...ticket in Belgrade is for a movie called Knife, a dramatic slice of the Yugoslav national theme--ethnic anguish. Serbs are packing theaters to see it for another reason as well. It is based on a novel by Vuk Draskovic, who for years has been dramatic himself in public life as a journalist, dissident and rival to President Slobodan Milosevic. The film's plot concerns a young man brought up by a Muslim woman. Muslim boy meets Serbian girl; boy loses girl because both families object. Later, he discovers he is a Serb. The message, says Draskovic...
...this as the Minnesota Lottery Effect. You are a factory worker in, say, a St. Paul milling plant. You know your job is probably not the most secure in the world. You know you need to get some new skills. And then one day you win the lottery. Life is suddenly a whole lot better. Money, it seems, cures everything. The problem in Japan is that even though having the new Nikkei riches may seem like winning the lottery, it's not. In fact, the money could disappear tomorrow, leaving Japan with a still troubled economy. A rising Nikkei...
...primary problem is that Japan's financial structure--everything from the way companies are managed to the amount of government debt--remains badly out of sync. Many Japanese companies are still chugging along as if it were 1981, complete with overweight overheads, inefficient manufacturing systems and "jobs for life." Japan's banks, long loaded with bad debt, have yet to write off many loans they know will never be repaid. And the nation's public finances--badly strained by years of gigantic "stimulus" packages--are also in a worrisome state. The government is borrowing at a feverish pace, adding...
Drabinsky is a chastened, drastically scaled-down mogul now. Yet he is eager to dispel any notion that he's on the run ("Canada is not a penalty; I'm proud of Canada") or that his creative life is over. He says he's developing a TV series that would be shot partly in New York City and is consulting on two "destination entertainment-cultural developments" being planned in Ontario. The legal morass he faces is "draining, emotionally and fiscally," he admits. "But my spirit is good." It will have...
...scarred exile, then comes home to save his dying kingdom in Act III. Watching Steve Jobs hold his gorgeous new iBook triumphantly aloft before his assembled legions at last week's MacWorld convention in New York City, it was easy to imagine Apple Computer's interim-CEO-for-life perched somewhere in the pantheon between Odysseus and Simba the Lion King...