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...further complicate the shot. “You’re not aware of the frame so much anymore.” In that setting, Altman believes, actors focus more on their performances. Streep adds, “You’re just living it.”To bolster the organic vibe, Altman abandons the set script; with his guidance, actors instead improvise as the tape rolls. Streep recalls the first day of filming: “Lily [Tomlin] and I just looked at each other. We couldn’t remember what to say, so we just said...
...Harvard Graduate Council, in the midst of a drive to bolster graduate student participation in the University presidential search, elected four officers to its 2006-2007 executive board at a meeting last week...
...Senator Clinton, who faces reelection in November, told Bloomberg News in New York that Bush's authorization of the leaking of information to bolster his case on Iraq "was absolutely not the proper use" of the declassification process, according to a transcript provided by Bloomberg. "Presidents should know not to go too far," she added. "We saw it with Richard Nixon - claiming national security to break into Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office, to break into the Democratic National Committee. Well, here we have a president at least giving an implicit go ahead...
...Gulf officials learn from Florida's example when rebuilding their hurricane response capability. It is one of only five states that reports feeling confident in its evacuation plan, and Loy and Witt say it has exemplary building codes, public campaigns, equipment, interagency relationships, and a catastrophe fund that helps bolster insurance coverage...
...Many have argued that the U.S. pressure against Jaafari and his current chief political ally, firebrand cleric Moqtada al Sadr, could actually backfire and bolster their position with a wave of anti-U.S. sentiment. Nonetheless, internal pressures on Jaafari to withdraw are mounting. On the same day that Rice and Straw made their visit, a senior member of the Shi'ite alliance asked Jaafari to step down, making a schism likely within the national assembly's leading voting block. If a faction of the alliance (the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq) backs out of its agreement...