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...Here the Australian director could be describing his own uncanny ability to master the minutiae of moviemaking while never losing sight of the bigger picture-even if it's a picture that no one's envisaged before. With unerring prescience, Miller has zoomed Australian cinema out of a costume-drama past and into a cutting-edge future (Mad Max); beamed through the freckles and frizzy hair of a gawky Sydneysider to find the screen goddess within Nicole Kidman (as producer of Flirting and Dead Calm); and spliced live action with animatronics and CGI as creator of the beloved Babe franchise...
...Klein is right that "The U.S. has lost the war in Iraq." Behind this there lies a bigger truth. For the past 50 years, the enormous military force of the U.S. has been at its most effective when it hasn't been fighting - for instance as a deterrent threat that helped keep the peace during the cold war. With one exception, when it has gone into combat, it has sooner or later retreated in defeat and left behind a mess to be cleaned up later. This happened in Vietnam in the '70s, Lebanon in the '80s and Somalia...
...translational researchers. The government could offer more incentives for innovative drug research. Patents for breakthrough drugs could be extended from the current 20 years to 25-30 years, while patents for "me too" drugs could be shortened to 10 years. Otherwise the billions for research will end up producing bigger profits, but not necessarily better medications...
...response to Washington's "carrot and stick" approach, the North would adopt a "dialog and shield" approach, adding ominously that by "shield," Pyongyang meant that it would "further improve our deterrent." That was a code word for one thing that no one wants to see: a second, and likely bigger, nuclear test...
...Lengyel (Matthew McConaughey), the last (possibly only) choice for the job and a guy with a winning - in both senses of the word - spirit. His record at Marshall was not great (9-31), but in his first year he did manage to win his first home game against a bigger, stronger opponent. More important, with his indefatigable can-do spirit, he and his outgunned team restored something better than pride to a terribly damaged community; they restored it to normalcy, to winning some and losing some, to just hanging in there the way we all have...