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...What stands out about your time on set? What I remember of it most was the overwhelming pleasure and sense of satisfaction seeing the actors perform the characters that I had invented. That was an incredible thrill, unequaled by anything I'd ever done as a writer. Your work is being performed by these incredibly talented people. And it gives it this resonance that is deeper than it had for you when you were writing it, because now it's brought to life...
...Citi officials already seem to be cashing in on the bank's loosened pay restrictions. Earlier in the week, Citi, which lost $1.6 billion in 2009, disclosed that it had paid John Havens, widely seen as the bank's No. 2 executive, nearly $10 million in compensation for his work last year. That topped even the salary of Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein, who was paid $9.6 million in 2009. Goldman, though, had profits of $13.4 billion in 2009. Alberto Verme, who for a time oversaw Citi's Dubai operations, responsible for billions of dollars in losses...
...reason for the domestic shakeup, analysts say, is to revive GM's North American market, considered the heart of any GM recovery. Driving home that point, Reuss brought back experts from GM operations in Australia and Thailand to work on North American sales and marketing initiatives. "We needed expertise," explained Reuss, whose latest re-organization also sent Bryan Nesbitt, who had been general manager of the Cadillac Division since last fall back to GM's design staff where he will be in charge of GM's advance design studio. "Bryan's very talented. We need his expertise in design," said...
...without the usual qualifiers. Gone are Sarkozy's early promises to make a respect of human rights and democracy central to all French foreign relations. Also gone is Sarkozy's former mocking of realpolitik as a political cop-out of cynical diplomats without principles. France is now eager to work with Russia on common security and economic interests - and it doesn't want to hear any sniping or criticism from other countries, s'il vous plaît.(See pictures of Nicolas Sarkozy in London...
...targeted in Iran's fourth Economic Development Plan, which ends this year. Despite the apparent unknowability of third-quarter statistics, figures closely associated with growth - capital investment and permits for new construction projects - showed double-digit declines. Overall unemployment stood at 11.3%, while the out-of-work figure for those between the ages of 15 and 24 was estimated to be just over 24%. Real unemployment figures, however, are suspected to be significantly higher, given that large numbers of the unemployed do not register with the Labor Ministry. Says an Iranian journalist, who asked for anonymity: "They have manipulated...