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...Middle East grapples with how to democratize while also including the Islamist movements that have become increasingly popular in the last three decades, Sept. 7's parliamentary elections in Morocco offer some useful insights. A poll two years ago indicated that 47% of Moroccans would vote for Morocco's Islamist Party of Justice and Development (PJD). That 47% turns out to be a curiously recurrent statistic. In 1991, the Algerian Islamic Salvation Front won the first round of elections with 47%, an outcome that plunged the military into panic and the country into a bloody civil war. This July, Turkey...
...switch engine manufacturers," says Randy Tinseth, vice president of marketing. The payoff: higher residual value of the airplane. Aboulafia says getting that kind of endorsement probably took a lot of hand holding and diplomacy, but the lesson is to get out there with the best business case you can offer: "Any doubts that the partners have are gone, of course, because this is the most successful launch in the history of any aircraft...
...there is a strenuous competition in Toronto: for the discriminating moviegoer's time. This year there'll be 349 films on offer; that's something like 500 hours of movies, and no one can see even a quarter of what's available. "We serve so many different masters here, so many different audiences," says Handling, "that there's leeway to program the widest range of films, from the most populist to the most esoteric." So each movie lover scans the list, finds a couple dozen promising titles and creates a personal minifestival...
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...oversee their enormous investment, the Weinsteins plucked David Lee, a film exec based in Hong Kong, where he was vice president of IDG Asia, a venture capital fund and media company in China. Lee says he took the Weinsteins up on their offer because he saw a good business plan: "They have a track record of knowing how to select and market to a Western audience," he says. "Other film funds haven't been able to figure...