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...hour later, before a screening of another worthy Asian film, I told my critic colleagues I'd skipped the Hou Hsiao-hsien film to watch Seinfeld fly over Cannes in a bee suit. One of my friends shook her head pityingly. "The things they make you cover," she said...
...runs his business the same way he plays his hockey--sharp and concentrated in handling passes--and he scores, says the associate. Medvedev also hits as hard as the Kremlin wants. One such hit shook Sakhalin Energy (SE), operator of the Shell-led Sakhalin II consortium. At $20 billion, it is the world's largest integrated oil-and-gas-export project, with total reserves of some 4 billion bbl. of oil equivalent (BOE) and total project capacity of 395,000 BOE per day, including 9.6 million tons per year of liquefied-natural-gas production. It is also the largest single...
...capital of northwest England. "Gordon Brown," he boomed at each encounter. "What do you think of Manchester?" One of his interlocutors, a party stalwart who has worked with Brown since before Labour swept to power in 1997, quietly reminded him that they were long-standing colleagues. His tousled host shook his mighty head like a bull that had just been pricked by an impudent picador. "Oh," he said, still evidently none the wiser. "Anyway, what do you think of Manchester...
This attack both misreads history and misunderstands Blair. Long before 9/11 shook up conventional thinking in foreign affairs, Blair had come by two beliefs he still holds: First, that it is wrong for the rest of the world to sit back and expect the U.S. to solve the really tough questions. Second, that some things a state does within its borders justify intervention even if they do not directly threaten another nation's interests. Blair understood that today any country's problems could quickly spread. As he said in a speech in 2004, "Before Sept. 11, I was already reaching...
...December, Kleinfeld was caught by surprise during a visit to the company's industrial-steam-turbine business in Görlitz, a provincial city on the Neisse River, which divides Germany and Poland. Kleinfeld walked into a meeting with about 200 of the division's staff, shook a few hands and launched into a pep talk in German. As he started to hit his stride, many of the division's top executives looked on dumbfounded. Then Rene Umlauft, the division CEO, intervened, waving his hand at Kleinfeld and forcing him to stop midsentence. "Excuse me, Mr. Kleinfeld," said Umlauft...