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Finally, while the real world may be plagued with disappointment or failure, my cartoon heroes always succeed in overcoming the life-threatening burdens placed before them...
...fundamentalists have total control of the masses," he says. "It gets worse and worse." Parents say they are fed up with the Wahhabist school curriculum, which rears students on a diet of intolerance. A typical passage from a sixth-grade history textbook vows that "Arabs and Muslims will succeed, God willing, in beating the Jews and their allies." Even a member of the royal family concedes, "We can't say we didn't know what was going on. People who stood up against it were told to shut up. The government let it get out of hand...
...left behind in exploring the possibilities of the medium. These journeys often leave most of the audience behind, but occasionally an artist brings us along and comes up with just the right amount of edginess and entertainment. Two new books, one from the U.S. and one from the Netherlands, succeed in this...
...stormy years for the 52 year-old, Israel-born CEO, who earned the nickname "the Teflon manager." But his departure hasn't automatically solved the problems at Telekom - and it may have back- fired politically for Schröder. Telekom board member Hel-mut Sihler was nam-ed to succeed Sommer for six months while a permanent successor is sought. Sihler, 72, a former chairman of the Henkels chemical group, is joined by Gerd Tenzer, head of Telekom's network division, as deputy. Board chairman Hans-Dietrich Winkhaus promised a "very radical consolidation" at the company. Deutsche Telekom shares rallied...
...pity is that while manipulations might have been a virtual necessity to succeed in business in the corrupt and stultified economy of the 1970s and 1980s, Ambani's tactics continued to raise concerns after 1991 when liberalizing reforms began to kick in. Reliance nearly suffered a disastrous collapse in investor confidence in 1995, when the Bombay Stock Exchange raised questions over share duplications and other accounting anomalies that appeared to disadvantage minority shareholders. The company subsequently pleaded guilty to technical breaches and clerical errors but no intent to defraud was found. Confidence was ultimately restored and the share price rebounded...