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...stiffest challenges facing Mexico's conservative new President, Felipe Calderon, is the creation of almost a million new, decent-paying jobs a year. But first, say most economists, Calderon has to accept a task that Mexican governments historically have dismissed - that is, regulate the monopolies, which lord over every industry from cement to broadcasting, and chip away at their epic privileges. The big reason for that urgency: the majority of Mexican workers are employed not by Big Business but by the nation's beleaguered small- and medium-sized enterprises...
...loss to music history and a blow to the renovation plans of the house's new owner--the Bee Gees' Barry Gibb. But Cash's neighbor, Oak Ridge Boys singer Richard Sterban, sees a higher power behind the disaster, telling the AP, "Maybe it's the good Lord's way to make sure that it was only Johnny's house." SCORE...
...lesser seducers, Mr. Goldbury (Roy A. Kimmey ’09) and Lord Dramaleigh (Morris), are just as likeable. Initially frustrated in their efforts to win the absurdly reserved hands of Princess Nekaya (Anna M. Resnick ’09) and Princess Kalyba (Megan M. Savage ’10), Goldbury and Dramaleigh burst into song with “Then I may sing and play.” The reason you should sleep with us, they tell the princesses, is because that’s what any proper English woman would...
...Rogers' large London-based firm, Richard Rogers Partnership, has continued to make buildings, like the Bordeaux Law Courts, that are imaginative without being willfully eccentric. Notwithstanding that he's Lord Rogers - the life peerage came in 1996 - Rogers is also a confirmed political progressive. At his firm the directors make no more than six times the lowest-paid architects. Like Norman Foster, whom he's often paired with as a pioneer of Brit high tech, he's committed to environmentally sustainable design. And during the Tony Blair years in the U.K., he's made himself into an architectural and city...
...Which do you like better, directing or running the studio? I like both jobs a lot and don't intend to drop one for the other. They are quite different. It's satisfying to be involved with films like Lord of the Rings, Wedding Crashers, Golden Compass and Rush Hour [as head of the studio]. I feel like they are part of my extended family. But they are godchildren, whereas I am the real father of the films I've directed. I feel a more paternal and genetic attachment to them...