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...people in Seattle as well, and California. But a friend of mine was just out working on the East Coast and he called and told me about all the colorful slang that they had, and it was all really different - some of it was really rude too. If I went to a shop in the Ozarks and it was really busy and everyone was working, there would probably be long stretches of time where I had absolutely no idea what they were talking about...
...Putin took charge. For most of that decade, between five and 10 businessmen (most notably Berezovsky, Mikhail Fridman, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Vladimir Potanin and Vladimir Gusinsky) ruled Russia. Their power reached its height at Yeltsin's re-election as President in 1996 - the same oligarchs who financed Yeltsin's campaign went on to buy lucrative state assets at knock-down prices. When he took power in 2000, Putin immediately set out to rein in the oligarchs, offering them a straightforward deal: Keep your money, but stay out of politics. Khodorkovsky, now confined in a prison five time zones east of Moscow...
...assess the whole of their humanity or believability. In order to "let emotions resonate," says the filmmaker, she intercut interpretive dancers in Korean garb with scenes of barbed wire and chilling landscapes. Playing off kitsch paeans to North Korea's Dear Leader, Heikin adds, "the whole film sort of went operatic." Ominous music in the repetitive manner of Philip Glass underscores, and ultimately overplays, the film's stories. (Read "North Korea: The Coldest...
...Harvard] is the No. 1 university in the world,” he said. “When I visited, I felt the connection, and I felt more comfortable than the other places I went to. It’s an amazing opportunity. Hopefully, I can take advantage of it when I’m here...
...though, Wiedeking made one bet too many, leveraging his company in a gambit to acquire the much larger carmaker. He failed because he underestimated the political opposition to a takeover of VW and ended up saddling Porsche with $13 billion in debt. As his star was sinking, Wiedeking went from hero in the German public's eye to a victim of his own massive hubris. In his way, Wiedeking is Germany's symbol of the greed generation, just as Bernie Madoff is in the U.S. or the Royal Bank of Scotland's Fred Goodwin is in Britain. Not a criminal...