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Movies have envisioned the post-apocalypse so often, from the Mad Max films to the current Daybreakers (directed by another set of twins, Peter and Michael Spierig) and The Road, that by now the future can seem passé. But the Detroit-born Hughes brothers have the bona fides to put dreadful war zones on the screen. When they were just 20, they made Menace II Society, a scalding view of gang-plagued Los Angeles. Their next film, Dead Presidents, depicted the scars of Vietnam on a returning vet. After the documentary American Pimp, they sent Johnny Depp in pursuit...
...This is a clear and unabashed oligarchy situation in which 150 people, max, run French business in a collusive but entirely legal manner," says Eric Grémont, a co-founder of PEOCS and a co-author of its upcoming book A la Découvert des Grands Patrons (Fleshing Out the Big Bosses). "You hear and read a lot about dynamic new companies and rising CEOs, but those are the tiny exceptions to the wider rule: French business is controlled by a small élite of very powerful men free to decide things as they wish - so long...
...Staff writer Max N. Brondfield can be reached at mbrondf@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Max N. Brondfield can be reached at mbrondf@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Max N. Brondfield can be reached at mbrondf@fas.harvard.edu...