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Louis Gallois, a Frenchman who was appointed CEO of Airbus last October, is trying to maneuver out of that mess. It's a perilous undertaking. Gallois replaced Christian Streiff, who lasted just 100 days after replacing No??l Forgeard, who was fired last summer. The restructuring plan Gallois unveiled seeks to eliminate duplication and reduce the 16 manufacturing plants to 10. His plan carefully distributes the job cuts. Immediately, politicians and unions in France and Germany started sniping over which side should bear the biggest burden. The three main candidates in the current French presidential-election campaign then promised more...
...first place. Without a script, he failed to convince anyone to finance “300,” and eventually decided to pursue other projects.“We went pretty much to every studio at that time and we pretty much got a ‘no?? from everybody,” he says. “Then ‘Dawn of the Dead’ came along and I felt like ‘300’ had stalled, and I went and did ‘Dawn.’ And when...
...commitment to Cambridge was “unequivocal.” At a time when it seemed more people had denied interest in Harvard’s presidency—at least 11 did so publicly—than could possibly be legitimate candidates, these three “no??s” were the loudest and most meaningful.WARY OF THE ‘MACHINE’What turned such promising candidates away from what some consider the world’s leading university? “Maybe some of them are not interested in Harvard...
...goal or, as he also admitted, define it with any accuracy. "I don't know that I've any style at all," he once told an interviewer. "I just patterned myself on a combination of 'Jack Buchanan [a debonair English musical-comedy star of the '20s and '30s], No??l Coward and Rex Harrison. I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be, and I finally became that person. Or he became me. Or we met at some point." In any event, Grant apparently felt that the process of self-invention on which he worked with so little visible strain...
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