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TIME invited a panel of five experts to help make sense of the impact of rising health-care costs on business. Joining Darling were Drew Altman, president and ceo of the Kaiser Family Foundation; Uwe Reinhardt, a health-care economist at Princeton University; Gail Shearer, director of health-policy analysis for Consumers Union; and Gail Wilensky, an economist and senior fellow at Project HOPE, an international health foundation...
...characters in the current thriller trio get where they're going by tapping into who they've been. Foster's Meg Altman is a mom; her mission is to defend her diabetic child. Judd's Claire Kubik in High Crimes is a lawyer; she needs all her skills of persuasion and stubbornness to fight what looks like a military conspiracy...
Foster portrays Meg Altman, a newly divorced mother who decides to purchase a newly available brownstone on the Upper West Side. Formerly owned by an eccentric millionaire, the apartment boasts a “panic room,” which is essentially a locked room deisgned to keep out invaders. However, this particular panic room houses several million dollars hidden by the millionaire and is the target of the three theives who break into Meg’s apartment her very first night...
...movie’s plot is plagued by illogical twists that leave the audience frustrated and irritated. Meg Altman predictably suffers from claustrophobia, though the disorder only surfaces during the first few hours of her confinement in her new home’s panic room. After Fincher satisfies himself that her claustrophobia has been successfully established, he moves on to another fairly well established cinematic trend, the fatal, time-dependent illness of Foster’s young daughter (Kristin Stewart). From an evil stepmother to a greedy young heir, a disconnected security phone line to a criminal disguising himself with...
Furthermore, to add to film’s impracticality, Meg Altman is able to cause a plume of propane gas to ignite from the panic room with impunity, yet the same ignited gas burns the incompetent thief, Junior (Jared Leto), despite the thick wall of concrete and steel between him and Meg. The survival boxes in the panic room contain fire blankets and mouthwash, but no food to alleviate the diabetic daughter’s drop in blood sugar while trapped in the panic room. The plot jerks such movements in such a contrived manner that the audience is able...