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...cars. In 2000, BMW sold it for the equivalent of $15 to four Birmingham businessmen whose firm was optimistically called Phoenix Venture Holdings. Their idea of a great car: the MG SV, introduced in 2002 with a starting price of $120,000. Only about 50 have been sold. Garel Rhys, an automotive expert at Cardiff University Business School, quips: "It's the yeti car. Everyone's heard of it, but no one has seen one." Last year, overall MG Rover sales were down to just over 100,000, less than half what the firm needed to break even. BMW invested...
...Laverton's roadhouse after the 3.5-hour drive north, he spots some Aboriginal teenagers. "When you're in Kalgoorlie," he tells them, "come to church." But Marumba's most important work is being done out here. "Some pastors preach fire and brimstone," says Laverton's newly inducted pastor Rhys Winter, "but Pastor Peter is more a teacher than a preacher." In the process, Marumba says he wants to give birth to a new kind of Christian worker - "a person that can float above all the issues." Laverton's Wongatha Wonganarra Aboriginal community is luckier than some...
...Together with Marumba and Pastor Rhys, last June the trio helped construct a temporary church shelter from scrap metal on the community common. "We put it up to show the people that there is a church here," says Smith. "Out here in the open, we can preach to anyone." Marumba won't be doing too much of that in the distant future; he'd like to take his wife and two young sons back to Kenya for a holiday. "I'm very tired," he admits. "Much too much." Already he can do some resting on his laurels. Out here...
Davey (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is a small-time drug dealer and a big-time womanizer but also a cute, cheeky, likable guy, working the fringes of the London demimonde. One night, for no reason that director Mike Hodges and writer Trevor Preston care to make clear, a car dealer (a particularly malevolent Malcolm McDowell) and two henchmen abduct and brutally rape him. Davey commits suicide, and his terminally taciturn brother Will (Clive Owen, the star of Hodges' Croupier) returns to the criminal life from a rough rural retirement to avenge the kid's death...
...cars, while fuel efficiency directives anticipate lighter cars. Sighed a Ford spokesman: "We're piggy in the middle." But - to mix animal metaphors - is Ford crying wolf? "Think of the discussions in the late '80s about how the cost of controlling emissions would make cars more expensive," says Garel Rhys, head of the Centre for Automotive Industry Research at Cardiff Business School . "The figures that were bandied around turned out to be nothing of the sort." Rhys argues the industry is so competitive that when one carmaker absorbs rather than passes on the cost of compliance, the rest will have...