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Grand Illusion Jean Renoir Perhaps the most beloved film on any list of all-time greats, this World War I saga prefigures many a Great Escape prison-camp movie--it pits a German commandant (Erich von Stroheim) against two captured French officers (Pierre Fresnay and Jean Gabin) in a gradually warming debate on the codes of honor and survival. But Renoir the humanist is no sentimentalist, as the film's French title makes clear: La Grande Illusion translates as The Big Illusion. This was the first Criterion DVD release, and the supplements show that the company was on its game...
...three-year health-policy dispute when it approved the "morning-after pill," Plan B, for over-the-counter sale yesterday. But fallout from the political feud surrounding Plan B will play out for months. Democratic Senators Patty Murray and Hillary Clinton dropped their objections Thursday to confirming Andrew von Eschenbach, acting FDA commissioner since September 2005; the Senators had vowed to stall von Eschenbach's nomination at the committee stage until the emergency contraception was made available over the counter. But more bitter response erupted immediately from conservative and faith-based groups, some calling on President Bush to withdraw von...
...younger for the kind of studies the FDA wanted, since young teens make up such a small segment of the population needing emergency contraception.) The decision to limit over-the-counter sales to women 18 and up was a compromise reached by the FDA and announced by von Eschenbach - and it's a decision that Barr still intends to challenge. "We'd like to continue to do clinical work now to address the younger patients," says spokeswoman Carol Cox. In the meantime, Cox says, Barr plans to have its brand-new single-purpose prescription and over-the-counter packaging ready...
...plans to hire 100 more this year. Bank Julius Baer, the venerable Swiss private bank, has similarly high expectations. "We're trying to position Singapore as a second leg [after Zurich] to our operation," says Thomas Meier, head of the company's private-banking arm in Asia. Says Didier von Daeniken, head of private banking for Credit Suisse in Southeast Asia: "The [Singapore] government is the smartest on earth in terms of promoting the place as a center for private banking...
...salaries as banks tussle with one another for talent. Industry consolidation may be the inevitable endgame. Only the biggest banks will be able to satisfy the growing salary demands of private bankers, so middle-tier players may gradually be squeezed out. "The big will only get bigger," says Didier von Daeniken, head of private banking for Credit Suisse in Southeast Asia. "As a middle player, it's not easy to make money because [staffing] costs have risen...