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...leadership, the company's revenue nearly doubled, the operating profit (EBITDA) more than tripled, and the equity quintupled. Today the companies acquired during my tenure deliver more than 60% of Bertelsmann's free cash flow. Thomas Middelhoff CEO, Bertelsmann (1998-2002) London Don't Play It Again, Sam Re Simon Robinson's commentary on why Africa needs more assistance than fund-raising celebrity sing-along CDs [Dec. 6]: At last, a well-reasoned article about the problems of Africa that doesn't resort to images of war, famine and despair. As an African, I cringe every time I hear...
...Better Than Nothing In his essay "Do They Know It's Simplistic?" [Dec. 6], Simon Robinson objects to the remake of the Band Aid song Do They Know It's Christmas? because it "reinforces the popular impression that all Africans are starving as they wait for heroic Westerners to come and save them." He notes that most Africans are not starving and that democracy has begun to take hold. I agree with Robinson's point that the song draws an out-of-date picture of Africa, but in a time when egoism has become a new lifestyle, we should acknowledge...
...while buying suntan lotion. An Austrian woman who used a wheelchair was carried off by the surf. British film director Richard Attenborough lost his 14-year-old granddaughter, Lucy, in Phuket. Attenborough's daughter, Jane Holland, 49, and her mother-in-law are missing. So is British fashion photographer Simon Atlee, 33, who was on vacation in Phuket with his girlfriend, Czech model Petra Nemcova, 25. Nemcova suffered a broken pelvis, but survived by clinging to a palm tree and floating in the water amid bodies and debris for eight hours. Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl watched the tsunami from...
...book, Cain?s Field: Faith, Fratricide, and Fear in the Middle East (Simon and Schuster), I write that ?from Lawrence of Arabia to Bill Clinton, Westerners applied their apparently logical perceptions of the conflict to a potential resolution, colored by romantic notions of the noble desert Bedouin or an evangelical inspiration to succor the biblical Hebrews in their homeland. These solutions failed because they missed something - the terrible insecurity which afflicts both societies...
...Cain?s Field: Faith, Fratricide, and Fear in the Middle East (Simon and Schuster's Free Press imprint) is available on amazon.com