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...Belgium's King Albert and Queen Elizabeth visited the University...
...attempt to thicken his cinematic stew, Lumet throws in countless non-characters running around trying desperately to make some sort of moral statement. Most prominent is Dr. Butz (Albert Brooks, in a role far beneath him), the resident money hungry alcoholic mastermind doctor emeritus at the hospital. Like so many in the film, Butz never gets to be a real person. He simply serves as a vehicle by which the screenwriter may embody every negative trait associated with the health care industry...
...Brooks is but one painful example of talent going to waste: it's another case of good actors trying their damnedest with bad lines. Kyra Sedgwick, James Spader, Albert Brooks and Helen Mirren are all fine, subtle performers; here, they are relegated to stale, two-dimensional stereo-types. Lumet may as well have subtitles put in key scenes: "This man is evil, because all he cares about is money. This man is good, because he really cares about making people better...
...study of international affairs at Harvard received a $21-million boost yesterday, thanks to Albert J. Weatherhead III '50 and the high-powered Weatherhead Foundation--founded in part by Former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger...
Laura Smith, assistant director of communications in the University's development office, said Albert Weatherhead has supported Harvard for many years...