Word: rebirthing
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...best food in the city (its mouth-watering fried chicken is served with the house salad), and music at the Maple Leaf Bar next door. Don't expect to lounge at the Maple Leaf; it's packed by 11 on most nights. But if favorites like the Rebirth Brass Band, a group of ex--street musicians, are playing, you'll be dancing anyway...
When U.S. Investment Group, led by U.S.-based Ripplewood Holdings, bought the bankrupt Long Term Credit Bank in 2000 and tapped Masamoto Yashiro to run it, he set out to revolutionize the industry. Since taking the helm of the bank--renamed Shinsei, or Rebirth--Yashiro, 75, has presided over one of the most successful turnarounds in Japanese corporate history. With 30 years experience at Exxon and nine more at Citibank, Yashiro has never been a member of Japan's insular financial community. "I don't follow the Japanese way of doing things," he says. Yashiro talks about competition, profitability...
...with a bypass--a primitive but miraculous piece of work--has had a premonition of death and now entertains a fragile sense of rebirth: bad news and good news mixed up in a disconcerting way that you have to get used to. You have the metaphysical sense of having become a different person (you have certainly, at least for a time, stopped being a patron of Burger King), and you may sense that the rest of your life is borrowed time--an extension purchased by surgical slice-and-splice. Your life feels provisional and may be canceled at any time...
...industry when its citizens started drinking less wine a decade ago. Argentine producers--who make more wine than Chileans but export only 15%--had a choice: export or go bust. "We had to differentiate ourselves," says Bernardo Hoffmann, marketing director for the Wines of Argentina export association. Hence the rebirth of Malbec, a French migrant long dissed as merely a blending grape. Enologists found the grape to be a more complex varietal than once thought, especially in Mendoza's dryer, Andean conditions. Today, Malbecs like Catena's, from $10 to $50, score high with U.S. critics for their exuberant, fruity...
...sequels) was manna to hermeneuticians. In a recent Museum of Modern Art film series called "The Hidden God: Film and Faith," Groundhog Day, the Bill Murray comedy about a man who relives the same day over and over, was cited as a profound statement of faith, either Buddhist (rebirth), Jewish (acceptance) or Christian (redemption...