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...will win? Frankly, even Cannes' veteran critics have no idea. Unlike the Oscars, this competition isn't preceded by other awards contests (the Golden Globes or Directors Guild or Screen Actors Guild votings), so there's no knowledgeable morning line. Further, the electors -the Cannes Jury -change membership 100% every year, so you can't go by past winners. Finally, it doesn't help much to imagine which of the competing films the jury president would like best. In 2002, when David Lynch was president, the winning film was Roman Polanski's very traditional The Pianist. Last year, ultra...
...provide management expertise. She works with lenders to buy a company time and cash. Then Von Lehman steps in as interim manager. "I move in while the company's still on life support," he says. As an industry, these experts number at least 7,700, according to the membership rolls of the Turnaround Management Association. Top performers can earn $950 an hour, plus stock and other bonuses...
...regime's history of working with groups of all manner of ideologies as part of its struggle for strategic control of Lebanon. Lebanese officials suspect that Syria has covert ties with Fatah al-Islam because Syria freed al-Absi from prison and because al-Absi maintained a long membership in the Syrian-backed Fatah Intifadeh group. The tie is difficult to prove, for the moment at least. But the Siniora government's suspicions, the heavy fighting in Tripoli and the looming showdown with Syria over the U.N. tribunal may combine for another season of turmoil in Lebanon...
...Wolfowitz always enjoyed an advantage at the table: he knew who he was - and wasn't - up against and he exploited the weaknesses of the board's polyglot membership adroitly. He knew the board would have trouble reaching a consensus about his fate; he knew that its members were divided internally; he probably also figured that they were reluctant to take firm action knowing such a move could trigger other investigations into small-stroke favoritism inside the largely oversight-free World Bank...
...trip to DaimlerChrysler headquarters in Stuttgart, where Zetsche said he would not be dissuaded from selling and Cerberus was the best of the potential buyers, Gettelfinger offered a tepid endorsement. "It's going to happen, and we're going to make it happen in the best interest of our membership," he said...