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...Four Seasons quartet - A Tale of Springtime, A Tale of Winter, A Summer Tale, An Autumn Tale - in the '90s and another three features in the 2000s. (He was a late starter who never stopped.) At times Rohmer dipped into the past, for The Marquise of O, Perceval and his final work, Romance of Astree and Celadon, but he's best remembered for his lighter films and their scrupulous devotion to the wiles and smiles of women. He ranked with George Cukor, Ingmar Bergman and Yasujiro Ozu as a director, appreciator and avid anatomizer of the opposite...
...establishing major local operations around the world, in the process hiring thousands of Brazilians, Chinese, Eastern Europeans and others. The need to train new recruits in multiple countries is a major test for Indian management, and has sparked a few cultural conflicts as well. Cesar Castelli, the São Paulo - based president of TCS in Brazil, says that the company has had difficulties squeezing more free-spirited Brazilians into an Indian corporate environment run on strict hierarchy and a devotion to internal rules. "Indians say 'Yes' and Latins say 'Why?,'" he quips...
...with reporting by Andrew Downie /São Paulo...
...Martin Luther King Jr. famously declared that "11 o'clock Sunday morning is the most segregated hour of the week ... And the Sunday school is still the most segregated school." That largely remains true today. Despite the growing desegregation of most key American institutions, churches are still a glaring exception. Surveys from 2007 show that fewer than 8% of American congregations have a significant racial...
...TERRY O'NEILL, president of the National Organization for Women, referring to Anthony Cucolo III, a U.S. Army general in Iraq who directed that female soldiers who become pregnant--as well as the male soldiers who impregnate them--be punished...