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...Throughout these low-key adventures, Jan maintains his air of wide-eyed innocence. Stuff is always happening to him, and he reacts to circumstances but never acts upon them. When, for example, the maitre d' in that Prague restaurant makes a bold subversive gesture to the occupying Nazis, Jan is sympathetic. But he does not take a stand with the man who has been his friend and mentor. He is, in effect, the heir to "The Good Soldier Schweik," anti-hero of the classic novel by Jaroslav Hasek, which is the Czech anti-epic...
...socioeconomic ladder. "Even in Sweden" - a country with a strong history of social and economic equality - "if you look over the last 10 years, life expectancy has improved across the board. But it's improved more for people with high education than it has for people with low education," says Michael Marmot, chair of the Commission and a U.K.-based epidemiologist...
Walking through downtown Reykjavík on a November night is a little like being trapped in a snow globe that's packed away in the world's attic. The gray sky hangs low, dusting the houses in white soundproofing. The narrow streets, glazed by the orange glow of streetlamps, are invariably empty. In the 2000 film 101 Reykjavík, the film's narrator puts it this way: "Reykjavík is like some kind of Siberia in the winter. Even the ghosts are bored here...
Stitzer has also engineered a series of restructurings. Beginning in 2003, he sold off low-margin businesses, closed about a quarter of the company's factories and cut 10% of its workforce. But a series of missteps hindered the company's turnaround. Although Stitzer had projected annual margin growth of 50 to 75 basis points for four consecutive years, it came in at less than half that...
...While it's nothing new for a presidential nominee to campaign across the country and arrive at his party's convention late, Obama's waltz into Denver is particularly slow and low-key. He's holding just one event a day, and those are mostly small town-hall meetings and picnics. Even for the reporters covering Obama the days have been relatively mellow: working from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. is unheard of on the campaign trail...