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Scorsese won his great renown for films about the brotherhood of deranged machismo: Mean Streets, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino, Gangs of New York. But as his documentaries about American and Italian cinema show, he is also an encyclopedic connoisseur, scholar and rescuer of old movies - a video savant - who makes occasional forays into genre territory. He's done romantic comedy (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore), Merchant-Ivoryish period drama (The Age of Innocence), a musical (New York, New York) and a thriller remake (Cape Fear). Even The Departed is an American version of a Hong Kong cop movie...
Fudge, in contrast, has come to prominence through the corporate world. Named by a 2003 issue of Fortune Magazine as one of the 50 most powerful women in American business, Fudge served as chairman and CEO of marketing giant Young & Rubicam Brands from 2003 to 2006 and has held presidencies at both General Mills and General Foods...
...know they’ll take up their work with the sense of integrity and strength of commitment that the American people deserve and America’s future demands,” said Obama in a White House press release...
...immediate response to the disaster, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies’ regional office in Santiago, Chile ensured that Harvard Study Abroad students were all safe and sound, according to Todd Washburn, Harvard’s assistant provost for international affairs...
...hard to believe that it has been just over a year since President Obama was sworn into office. The feeling of the nation then was hopeful. American voters had just torn down the nation’s final color barrier, and the youthful, eloquent, and charismatic president-elect offered a welcome promise of change. “All this we can do. All this, we will do” the President declared on that bitter-cold January day, in reference to a lengthy list of dire issues facing the nation. Obama vowed to tackle the nation’s toughest...