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...some accounting. Products such as cars, refrigerators and new television sets are out of our reach-we are only hoping that our old ones will last 10 more years. We go to a restaurant once in three months, and this year we have decided to do without a summer holiday in nearby Corsica. We just can't afford it anymore. And compared with one-income families, we are quite well off. Is it so difficult to understand that the tremendous price increase of everyday items along with a yearlong stagnation in payrolls leads to empty wallets? Bettina Klein,Pisa, Italy
...with Penny Arcade." Now their strip, which stars two young men who are obsessed with video games, has 4 million readers a month. Penny Arcade has a staff of eight. Holkins and Krahulik run an annual convention, Penny Arcade Expo, which is expected to draw 20,000 people this summer, and a charity called Child's Play that donates video games to children's hospitals. Last year they raised more than $1 million...
...good news is that baseball as a game hasn't lost its grip on the Japanese soul. Every summer Japan is transfixed by the national high school baseball championship tournament, so passionate that it makes March Madness look like a pickup game at the YMCA. Ratings for local pro games may be low, but millions of Japanese will tune in to Matsuzaka's Red Sox games. If Japanese pro ball can liberalize--perhaps by sharing revenue to add competitive balance--there's no reason it can't recapture Japan. After all, there are some aspects of the Japanese game that...
Louis Gallois, a Frenchman who was appointed CEO of Airbus last October, is trying to maneuver out of that mess. It's a perilous undertaking. Gallois replaced Christian Streiff, who lasted just 100 days after replacing Noël Forgeard, who was fired last summer. The restructuring plan Gallois unveiled seeks to eliminate duplication and reduce the 16 manufacturing plants to 10. His plan carefully distributes the job cuts. Immediately, politicians and unions in France and Germany started sniping over which side should bear the biggest burden. The three main candidates in the current French presidential-election campaign then promised more...
Other Tudor-era folk are getting their moment in the sun too. In this fall's The Golden Age, Cate Blanchett reprises her role as the steely Queen from 1998's Elizabeth. The very busy Johansson is scheduled to start filming a biopic of Mary Queen of Scots this summer. Even Sting is getting in on the Tudor buzz, popping up on chat shows with a lute to promote Songs from the Labyrinth, a CD of tunes by 16th century composer John Dowland. And fat Henry hasn't been left out. A just-closed exhibit of work by the King...