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...Couples' success was welcome news for Universal Pictures, which this summer suffered disaster after comedy disaster (Land of the Lost, Brüno, Funny People) and recently replaced its top two executives. "Movies always do business after the studio heads get fired," an insider told Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood, echoing film-biz folk wisdom and ignoring the flop opening of Disney's Surrogates the week after the company canned Dick Cook, its longtime production chief. (See the 100 best movies of all time...
...Swiss firm made its name flogging bold, plastic wristwatches in the 1980s. "Like Crocs, Swatch was very faddish, slightly gaudy, plastic and cheap," says Rita Clifton, chairman of global brand consultancy Interbrand in London. When fashions changed, Swatch faced a similar challenge: How could it build on that early success and appeal to a wider market? It now offers a range of metal, plastic and even Tiffany watches. "They've meta-morphed their brand over time and have a broader base of appeal," says Clifton. (Read about Swatch's new Tokyo...
...year-incumbent with de facto control of the BRA, is known for his extensive clout in the City’s planning and development. A recent feature in the Boston Globe, noting that Menino’s support is often crucial to a project’s success, stated that “perhaps nowhere else in the nation, has a mayor obsessed so mightily, and wielded power so exhaustively” over such matters...
...targeted al-Qaeda leaders. Several of the principals involved in Obama's strategy review have told me that their ultimate position on troop levels will depend on whether a plausible government, newly committed to reform, emerges when the Afghanistan election process is finally completed. Either way, the increased success against al-Qaeda could mitigate the need for a full counterinsurgency strategy. "That's the central question of the internal debate," a senior Defense official told...
Looking through 100 years of files, what do you see as MI5's biggest success? Definitely against Germany during the Second World War. Some of the best German spies were turned into double agents, and that is the central part of the most successful deception in the history of warfare, without which the D-day landing couldn't have taken place. What I discovered in the files is how it all began - in a characteristically eccentric British way. The most adventurous of the MI5 agents in the 1930s was an air ace from the First World War named Christopher Draper...