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...annual two-week session of the National People's Congress - China's nominal parliament - ended Friday with characteristic efficiency. The 3,000 delegates to what is effectively the legislative arm of the ruling Communist Party took less than a minute to vote in a much ballyhooed new property law, according to reports in state-controlled media. It was a speedy finish to an agonizingly long gestation for the law, which for the first time enshrines the rights of private individuals to own property...
...name. The company was filled with his adherents, including some who were itching to emerge from his shadow. "We weren't all trying to be mini--Tom Peters," says Parks, a 20-year veteran of the firm. "[But] some people in the organization had tom peters tattooed on their arm." In fact, some key players who had followed Peters into the company eventually followed him out. Ron Crossland stepped into the void but in January passed the management torch to Thompson while remaining as chairman...
...Sluggo, and so on in an infinite chain. The girl on the Morton's Salt box holds a Morton's Salt box that has her own image on it, which in turn has a tiny salt box with another girl on it--the series would regress endlessly if her arm didn't get in the way. Goofing around with a video camera, Hofstadter pointed it straight at the TV screen to create an infinite receding tunnel of video feedback...
...Ireland in 1920, when the locals fight for their independence from Britain, then split into rival factions. Two brothers personify the division: Teddy (Padraic Delaney), who's open to political compromise, and Damien (Cillian Murphy), who won't renounce the purity of his socialist ideals and joins the revolutionary arm of the i.r.a. Loach's approach, though, is anything but evenhanded. The British soldiers are cartoonishly brutal, insulting old ladies, bayoneting men, pulling out a suspect's fingernails with rusty pliers. It's easy to see which of the brothers is to have your sympathy. Murphy, with his sensitive, sensuous...
...they really are history’s greatest warriors. With that premise, how could “300” disappoint? Well, to begin with, it’s a painfully overdone film. Dialogue often consists of no more than characters losing limbs and yelling “MY ARM!” The script suffers from unnecessary sex scenes, giving the impression that the directors deliberately added certain content to appeal to the unwashed masses. B-movie composer Tyler Bates scores a forgettable soundtrack, trying to balance “Lord of the Rings”-esque orchestral fare...