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...sense, the theme of director Curtis Hanson's movie, which he co-wrote with Eric Roth (Munich, The Good Shepherd) - a writer with a gift for patient, novelistic complexity - is the education of Huck Cheever. Even though that process proceeds via a certain amount of boy-girl, father-son clichés, the movie does not have a tired feeling about it. In part that's because Huck, who needs to get together enough money to pay his entrance fee for the World Championship of Poker and can only do so by "playing with the guppies" in small stakes games...
...1970s, when there was a host of big corruption cases," he says. For Siemens, the end of the bad news is far from over. As Kleinfeld was making his parting statements, the SEC launched an official investigation into the company. And Siemens conceded that the amount of money siphoned off for bribes at its telecom unit is probably much higher than the $570 million previously thought...
...more basic need to conserve habitat. China deserves credit for making the world aware of the panda's plight and for getting East and West to cooperate in saving the animal. The $4 million that four U.S. zoos contribute annually to saving the pandas' habitat is a piddling amount compared with the need, but China has responded by pouring billions into a "Grain to Green" program designed to convert marginal mountainside farms back to forest. There is nothing to be gained by focusing on a few misguided efforts and ridiculing a program that has been highly successful overall...
...We’re going to be down in numbers,” senior co-captain Julia Pederson said of her team, which will only bring 21 out of the possible 36 girls to the meet. “Finishing in the top half with half the amount of people would be a legitimate goal...
...challenge is to move forward on, you know, gender and so on, but it’s not to lose sight of the huge amount of work that still has to be done for people who are economically disadvantaged,” Gutmann said...