Word: appearances
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...who’s who. The director takes great pains to achieve this effect; Beyoncé stands several inches taller than Shakira’s tiny five-foot frame, but the camera circles around the pair, always catching one at a slight diagonal to the other, such that they appear to be the same height. Add the grayish lighting to confuse their skin coloration, and the result is an aesthetic illusion as clever as it is sexy. And then there’s the dancing—the gyrating and the hip thrusting that make Beyonc?...
...years later, crisis management is proving harder than ever. (Just ask Don Imus.) The biggest change comes from the demands of always-on news. Companies now have to sweat not only the morning's headlines but endless blog postings and runaway video clips that can (and do) appear 24 hours a day. Even when there isn't much new information, blogs can keep a crisis alive--and smart companies must pay as much attention to them as they do to the national media...
...area where he is moving out of the centrist comfort zone with risky populism. If elected, Rudd is proposing to achieve a 60% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Risky populism is becoming the backbeat to Doing a Kevin. Rudd is chasing a younger crowd through appearances on puerile FM radio shows. One of the medium's luminaries, Jackie O, asked Rudd if he would continue to appear on her program if he became P.M. "Happy to come on the date, the time and the hour," he said, adding, "there's only one precondition. All the questions are easy...
...Veterans Affairs Minister Bruce Billson says he is concerned that "Gregg does not appear to have accessed the services available to him." John Ryan, who heads the Federation of Totally and Permanently Incapacitated Ex-Servicemen and Women, wants the government to fund a study to try to identify veterans at risk of suicide. What troops in Afghanistan and Iraq go through, he says, is what all combat soldiers experience. "When people are subjected to what happens in wars, it's very unhealthy." For veterans in 2007, "we need to do a better...
...fully annealed killer who emerges from this process is a cold and deliberate thing. The time he's spent rehearsing his carnage is a big part of what causes the actual execution of it to appear so disciplined and free of emotion - or even pleasure. That, however, does not mean that mass murder is conducted entirely without feeling. For the killer, the powerlessness that came from a sense of victimization has been replaced by its perfect opposite - a heady experience that may produce an implacable serenity on the one hand, or the eerily jocular banter that surveillance tapes picked...