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...told exactly what to do. I have no responsibility." The man picks up his leather briefcase and wanders out of the shop joining the crowds on the escalator to head back into the financial heart of Hong Kong - back to his big deals, back to playing the boss-man, back to being in control...
...security and foreign affairs, there's almost no major issue that doesn't feel his touch. But last week, just two days after he underwent his second cardiac surgery in three months, the 60-year-old Vice President was back at his desk--his return hastened, perhaps, by a boss who insisted there was no reason for Cheney to even consider slowing down. "He's very important," the President said. "He is needed. This country needs his wisdom and judgment...
...Lonergan specializes in smart comedy-dramas of urban contemporary life, sprinkled with laughs but exploring serious moral issues, usually through the prism of a determinedly quirky central character. In "Lobby Hero," that person is Jeff (Glenn Fitzgerald), a woebegone night security guard who must decide whether to help his boss cover up the possible involvement of the boss's brother in a murder. Things get complicated when the case comes to the attention of two cops, a female rookie and her veteran partner, who are grappling with some ethical issues of their...
...street cred at all) and to Mark Brokaw's direction, which is too broad. But the fault lies mostly with Lonergan, who betrays his much vaunted realism with contrivance and cheap laughs at every turn. Example: Jeff, the cutely self-aware nincompoop, doesn't want to betray his boss's confidence, so he tells the whole story to Dawn by disguising it, ineptly, as a "hypothetical" case, a ruse she sees through in about five seconds. Pure sitcom schtick - like too much in Lonergan's work...
Summers will no doubt find that dealing with a large, powerful, fiercely independent group of faculties will be reminiscent of struggling with the power barons of Congress during his time at the U.S. Treasury. And a Harvard president certainly has fewer constitutional powers than his former boss Bill Clinton. But the Harvard president has a bully pulpit second to none in the world of higher education, and here, too, where Summers will need to make his mark. Some of the tasks are crucial but relatively straightforward--explaining to the American people the critical importance of funding higher education as well...