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...nearly half of the overall company's revenues. With Fiat rolling toward recovery--and his increasingly central role in the holding company's day-to-day management and the dynasty's long-term destiny--Elkann decided to give his first-ever extensive interview. He spoke with TIME about his rapid rise in Italy's leading business family, Fiat's struggle to adapt to a shifting global playing field and a young man's relationship with his famous silver-haired grandfather...
...relate to in this film--the guest or the hosts? I've been a Dupree, but I've also experienced a Dupree. My older brother Andrew blames Luke [Wilson] and me for the rapid disintegration of his first marriage. We were always at his house. Then I had this great girl I was living with, and he moved in, and the Ping-Pong table replaced the dining-room table, and the motorcycle got parked inside, and before you know it, she was gone...
...will NATO's approach to security differ from the U.S.'s? I've got more troops and a lot more nations that want to contribute resources. I will create zones of security [with] a much more rapid delivery of reconstruction development. Those not in the zones will be saying to the so-called Taliban and others, "Look at the roads, the construction, the micro power projects. You get out of our village, so we can get into the zone." Much of the fighting is a result of narco-lords paying either so-called Taliban or others to fight, which...
While Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki pursues the logic of security plans and national reconciliation, a different and deadly logic prevails on the streets of Baghdad. A rapid back-and-forth of Sunni-Shi'ite violence this weekend was an unusually vivid illustration of the cycle of sectarian massacre and counter-massacre that has accelerated in Iraq since the bombing of a Shi'ite shrine in February...
...Further fueling this domestic-tourism boom is the dramatic rise in car sales and the rapid construction of a national highway network, making travel more practical and alluring. China has about 34,000 km of highways, a number that's expected to more than double by 2020. "The highways linking cities in Inner Mongolia are better than the road between Sydney and Melbourne," marvels Bruce McKenzie, who oversees China operations for the U.K.-based InterContinental group, which is among the most aggressive of the international players in China. It currently runs 54 hotels there, mostly under the Holiday Inn marque...