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While Ghosn called the shots, Kazutoshi Mizuno, chief vehicle engineer and chief product specialist, choreographed the GT-R's journey from a Japanese concept to Germany's famed N??rburgring racetrack, where it clocked 0 to 60 m.p.h. (100 km/h) in 3.2 sec., a wink faster than Porsche's GT3. "Mizuno was responsible for cherry-picking those he wanted to work with," says Hiroshi Hasegawa, chief designer of the GT-R. "Information cascaded from him." A veteran racing-system developer and director, Mizuno asked Ghosn to allow for a race-car development method. He started in December 2003, using early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revving Up Nissan | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...Spanish A, there lies a persistent passion for theater behind the verb conjugations and vocabulary lists. Pursuing a PhD in theater studies at the prestigious Complutense University of Madrid, Rodríguez premiered an original play, “Chéjov en el jardín?? (“Chekhov in the Garden”), on Feb. 21 at the Teatro Español, a prominent theater in Madrid, where it will run through March 16.“Chekhov in the Garden” was inspired by Rodríguez’s passion for Russian...

Author: By Matthew H. Coogan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: SPOTLIGHT: Veronica Rodriguez Ballesteros | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

Haden Guest, director of the Harvard Film Archive (HFA), described Catalan director José Luis Guerín??s films, presented Feb. 9-11 at the Carpenter Center, as “an attempt to return to the fundamental properties of cinema.” Well-known abroad, but not in America, Guerín blends fact and fiction in movies that not only challenge the viewer’s conception of reality and truth, but also his conception of a movie itself. Guerín screened his films in person as a part of the HFA?...

Author: By Alina Voronov, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Guerín Debuts Films in U.S. | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

...didn't say anything about our trades, did you? Otherwise you're dead meat.' JEROME KERVIEL, rogue Socit Gn??rale trader, talking with a broker in an Oct. 11 online chat about risky trades that are believed to have cost the bank $7.2 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

...Today, several voices have called for more regulation of investment banks like Société Gén??rale. Speaking at the Harvard Kennedy School, French Socialist leader Segoléne Royal cited the Kerviel case as an example of why a sort of global regulatory central bank is needed. Royal may be right: Regulation, like good risk management, may help curb moral hazard. But this is just part of the solution...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: When It Hits the Fan | 2/12/2008 | See Source »

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