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Well, why not, says the mild-mannered, somewhat unworldly writer. And if, eventually, he is required to join the SS and start doing other chores for the Nazis, what of it? At first there is nothing onerous in his duties - and they carry obvious benefits. Lots of swell parties are part of the deal. And he is appointed head of his department at the university. Best of all, his blossoming ego permits him to undertake an affair with one of his students (Jodie Whittaker), which leads him to a divorce from his distracted wife and then into a new, happy...
...Mortensen, normally an expertly rambunctious actor, hiding behind his wireless glasses, playing a dim and fussy man, but to place antiheroism at the center of a film is to invite a kind of indifference that vitiates our involvement and concern for its outcome - which, in any case, is obvious almost from its outset...
...have retreated to his base in the semi-autonomous Puntland region. No one knows his next move. Ethiopian troops, who brought Yusuf into the presidential palace in Mogadishu two years ago, have announced they will withdraw from Somalia in a few days, and so far, there is no obvious candidate who could take Yusuf's place. Nor is there anyone considered powerful enough to united Somalia's ever-divided clans...
...amazed that Saporito made no mention of the Big Three's most obvious and most easily remedied failure: clueless marketing. Consider that GM, arguably the world's biggest car company, is worth far less today than Harley-Davidson, the world's fourth largest motorcycle maker. Dexter Ford, MANHATTAN BEACH, CALIF...
...example, the 1999 collapse of South Korea's gargantuan Daewoo Group in the wake of the Asian financial crisis. The end of Daewoo, one of the country's four largest industrial conglomerates, was a shocker, but not because anyone was surprised by Daewoo's abysmal financial condition. That was obvious. The group was amassing dizzying amounts of debt in an ill-conceived global expansion (especially at its car company). A year earlier, I had called Daewoo's madcap strategy "corporate suicide" in the Wall Street Journal. The surprise was that policymakers and bankers had the guts to allow Daewoo...