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...spaghetti western changed that. Sergio Leone filched the plot from Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo (Hollywood had already remade Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai as The Magnificent Seven) for his 1964 Fistful of Dollars. Clint ambles into a rotten town commandeered by rival miscreants and takes both gangs down. In Fistful and the Leone-Eastwood followups For a Few Dollars More (surely the most honest title every slapped on a sequel) and The Good, the Bad & the Ugly, society was run by outlaws. The moral choice was among various shades of black. Anarchy ran riot, and the only recourse was martial...
...another decades-old revenge story and one of the great, elegiac Westerns. It was horse opera rendered as grand opera, with Morricone's fullest, most voluptuous score. Corbucci's vision was much bleaker. For once the good guy doesn't win. Hero and heroine are both killed, and the rival bad guys are left to shoot it out in a final saloon carnage...
...customers amounted to a smaller chunk of the funds it could lend in the form of mortgages. So the company turned instead to other banks for cash. The result: three-quarters of its funds were borrowed from the wholesale credit markets, versus around half at rival mortgage bank Alliance & Leicester and 25% at Bradford & Bingley. "For years," says Wheeldon, "they made the wholesale markets work for them...
...price-fixing penalties wiped at least some of the gloss off all that. According to the OFT, scheming with rival Virgin over the level of fuel surcharges started months before Walsh took control. As soon as the OFT informed BA in mid-2006 that it was investigating the company, the airline cooperated with the investigations. (Virgin, whose legal team first contacted the OFT about the scheming once it got wind of the problem, should escape any fine as a result.) Still, it's hardly reassuring that staff at BA thought it a smart idea to collude with the company...
...would lead to a relaxation of tight controls on political and social expression. As for those who live in Beijing, the Olympics will signify the transformation of their city--until recently one whose sinews and shape had been constant for hundreds of years--into a place that aims to rival New York or London as an iconic world city of the new century. The 2008 Olympic Games, in short, are changing the way in which all of us, in China or thousands of miles from it, think about a city, a country and--because that country has nearly...