简介:When Franz presides over the German League, Bismatrck arrives late with a great Dane, a statue of the emperor it urinated on and the claim that his Prussian king should take over the presidency. Franz feels that's a casus belli, but realizes he can't win a war, whoever starts it, without a much stronger army, which costs an obscene fortune. He intends to get a loan for it from napoleon III, who would cease to be an enemy to safeguard his 'invetsment'. To that end, the imperial couple travels to Biarritz, where he feels humiliated, but Andrassy suggests Ssi can win over the empress by showing trust by a personal request for a love nest. KIt nearly backfires, but the loan is awarded, yet Napoleon convinces Franz that Andrassy must be in league with Bismarck. Sisi must again interrupt their bliss since the birth of their heir to find out in Hungary if that country remains loyal.
简介:A ruthless corporate raider on the verge of making partner at his NYC private equity firm, is forced to return to his small town roots where he suddenly inherits his father's nearly bankrupt pencil factory, which is the heart and soul of the depressed community. With the foreclosure deadline looming, he must decide to either join the community's fight to save the factory, or let it close and relocate to China.
简介:Dante has a beautiful relationship with his girlfriend Alice, but he has a bad one with Time: absorbed by the many commitments of his daily life, he always arrives late and has the impression that his life is flowing too quickly. It also happens on the first day of his forty years, when Dante shows up hours late at his birthday party. According to him, the solution seems at hand: if he works hard enough, maybe in a few years he will be able to buy some time.