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...vanity of the many Britons duped by Alan Conway, a man who spent much of the 1990s pretending to be Stanley Kubrick. The tagline is more apt, however, as a warning for the film. Essentially plotless, “Color Me Kubrick”—a fictionalized account of the Conway affair—is little more than a showcase for John Malkovich (as Conway) and a stockpile of in-jokes for admirers of the late director, best known for “A Clockwork Orange” and “2001: A Space Odyssey...
...might not be that easy for Dove to overturn the mind-set against aging gracefully. Boomers might say they want to look their age, but how they spend their money is another matter. How else to account for the more than 4 million Americans who got Botox injections last year? The antiaging mantra has spread beyond face creams. Revlon makes a line of "age-defying makeup," and Crest makes "Rejuvenating Effects" toothpaste. Even winemaker Robert Mondavi has jumped into the beauty pool with a luxury antiaging skin-care line, Davi ($175 for a 2-oz. jar), packed with grape-seed...
Even without such hard data, microcredit has captured the imagination of philanthropists. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, with an endowment of $33 billion, has pledged as much as 25% of its total spending to its "global development" program, including microfinance. Such programs account for only a small slice of the nearly $250 billion Americans gave to charity in 2006, but they're becoming more popular, partly because microfinance has a reputation for transparency and efficiency...
...there was hardly any student interest in physics or philosophy…intellectual life in the FAS would be unacceptably impoverished if it did not include physicists and philosophers.” Student demand should not entirely rule faculty appointments, but it should at least be taken into account, lest the intellectual life of social science concentrators (the majority of students) be “unacceptably impoverished” by their lack of faculty contact...
...earthquake of magnitude 8.1 hit the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean in the early morning of April 2. More than 20 people have been reported killed in the resulting tsunami. Following is an account provided to TIME via phone from the South Pacific nation...