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...that we've established my bona fides, let's get to you, George. For the third act of your career, you're gonna need some Jedi managerial advice. You came up with Star Wars and Indiana Jones in the '70s. You invented all kinds of super-cool technology that revolutionized moviemaking. And now it's time to use the force of your experience and nearly $4 billion net worth to leave Obi-Wan and Dr. Jones behind and tell a story you thought of after the Carter Administration. I know...
...listen to recordings of model-train sound effects. No wonder she goes for the slightly sprightlier Karl (Horst Westphal), who's 76 but young at heart, or at least early middle-aged. They have a quick tryst in his apartment, which begins a love affair that lets them both act like teenagers. The movie moves at Werner's pace, but its eye for character is clear and its heart strong...
...nearly a dozen bills on his plate as chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, fondly known as the HELP committee. Other Kennedy bills pending before the committee or the full Senate include bipartisan legislation to modernize medical records; the reauthorization of both the Higher Education Act and No Child Left Behind; mental health parity legislation; a bill to ensure fair pay to women, which was defeated three weeks ago but which Kennedy swore on the floor to bring back; and a bipartisan bill granting collective bargaining rights to emergency first responders, which was on the floor...
...person told the Globe. “Buying this stuff now is so beneath Harvard.” But according to Leslie A. Morris, Harvard’s curator of modern books and manuscripts, Harvard did not purchase Mallory’s archive as a retaliatory act. “Anger is not a part of the purchasing of this archive,” she sai. Harvard was never in negotiation with Mailer about his papers, according to Morris. Dealers are aware that Harvard is not a “big league player” when it comes...
Conservatives don’t just feel underappreciated; they worry the maverick’s unrequited love has pushed him leftward. In March, McCain was hands-off the housing market, asserting, “[I]t is not the duty of government to bail out and reward those who act irresponsibly, whether they are big banks or small borrowers.” Two weeks later, he was hands-on, insisting, “We will combine the power of government and the private sector to find immediate solutions for deserving American homeowners...