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...aviation. Air France ordered a dozen of the $300 million aircraft in 2000, when the economic forecast called for steady growth. By the time Air France took delivery nine years later, the industry was on its knees and the big-spending investment bankers whose business- and first-class tickets make up the bulk of airline profits had largely evaporated...
...sticking by his hub strategy. The skies are getting crowded, and he'd rather have the A380 to collect passengers in Paris from all over Europe and deliver them to places like New York and Johannesburg. "It's just like the big cities today," he says. "It doesn't make sense to add a lot of small cars. You need to add buses." (Read Airbus vs. Boeing: Bigger vs. Faster...
...such a system can provide better living standards for hundreds of millions, and that simple fact is immeasurably enhancing China's reputation and soft power in the developing world. Brazil and Indonesia are proving that democracies can deliver too. But India's size and the measure of its challenges make it a special case. If India can translate raw figures of economic growth into widely shared prosperity, then it will not just be Indians who benefit. It will be the whole world, as democracy will be shown to be compatible with improvement in human development at a similar scale...
...Clooney is the Danny Ocean of canids, with the complication of paternity. The family vibe here is as tense as in earlier films by Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums) and Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale) but with a stalwart, creative dad who will somehow make things right. There's a similarly fruitful tension between the movie's hip, careless tone and the painstakingly retro stop-motion technique. The result is not a collision but a concerto and, for audiences, harmonic bliss. (Read "George Clooney: The Last Movie Star...
...different weight. His hair was different and dyed black [he had just played Salvador Dalí in Little Ashes]. He was all sloppy. The studio head said, 'You want to cast this guy as Edward Cullen?' I said yeah. And he said, 'Do you think you can make him look good?' I said...