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...also worth noting that few of the Asian firms that have succeeded overseas bought their way there. Japanese automakers Toyota and Honda enjoyed years of protected markets at home, then set up operations abroad that introduced new production techniques or superior engineering. In Korea, Samsung and Hyundai took decades to build respected brands. By contrast, electronics maker LG failed to establish a thriving business from its shortcut purchase of the TV brand Zenith?though it has recently been much more successful in penetrating global markets by pushing its own brand. Chinese acquirers will face similar challenges...
...gain some benefits from its foray abroad. Lenovo's new CEO will be the highly regarded IBM veteran Stephen Ward, who will steer the business from Lenovo's new headquarters in Armonk, New York?a convenient location from which to target the U.S. market. The breadth of Lenovo's product line will improve, too: it will offer clients IBM's upscale laptops, in addition to its own line of cheap desktop computers. And then there's the IBM name. "They are going to ride the coattails of the IBM brand," says Bryan Ma, a Singapore-based analyst at consulting firm...
Blade: Trinity, to its credit, is easily understandable, and has no pretensions of grandeur. In contrast to other vampire movies it is particularly understated and director David Goyer (the writer of the first two films) keeps Blade going at a quick, clipped pace. It is a product of its genre, the comic-book movie, and in that sense it accomplishes its goals. It is action-packed. It involves copious explanations of weapon use. And it features a truly haunting sequence set at a vampire blood-bank that finally has the guts to honestly address America’s burgeoning homeless...
Prior to that performance, he’d fared much better, posting a 1.05 goals-against average, .958 save percentage and six shutouts in 18 appearances. Those numbers were, in large part, the product of an 11-game stretch during which Howard allowed zero even-strength goals...
...Leary, Revolutionary Books was founded “about thirty years ago” (Marxists believe in an historical dialectic, but not that historical) and it’s been in its present location for the past decade. The staff members, who describe themselves as “a product of the sixties,” explain that, even in 2004, it remains a bastion of the counterculture that Cambridge embodies. “It still has a reputation as an area for radical thought,” O’Leary says. Harvard students have been known to patronize...