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Like major league teams with their farm system, comedies offer a chance for young talent to move up. Vaughn provided comedy relief for nearly a decade before his breakthrough with Wilson in Wedding Crashers. Rogen was one of Carell's buddies in The 40 Year Old Virgin; in Knocked Up, he had his own posse, and one of that group, Jonah Hill, will star this fall in the Rogen-written Superbad with Michael Cera, who's the male lead in the just wrapped Juno. John C. Reilly, Ferrell's foil in Talladega Nights and the forthcoming Step Brothers, gets...
...other words, Hanoi is waging a p.r. campaign. The message: dissidents are criminals bent on undermining Vietnam's political system-a system that is portrayed as increasingly open and responsive to the public. The May 20 National Assembly elections were hailed by the government as a breakthrough for democracy because independent candidates were encouraged to run, even though the Communist Party ended up with 91% of the 493 seats. And state media have published lengthy articles criticizing the West's messy multiparty systems and trumpeting "Vietnamese-style democracy"-that is, one-party rule-as a guarantor of stability and peace...
...when Mazur brought his breakthrough to the Harvard office that patents professors’ inventions, a University employee evaluated his discovery and brushed it aside...
...make sure it doesn’t miss a chance to commercialize a big breakthrough again, OTD is now filing more “provisional” patent applications on professors’ inventions...
...admit to a rather jaded view of Congress' newest "breakthrough" on immigration reform. In some respects, the deal hammered out in the Senate, which looks set to pass the full chamber next week, is an improvement over past efforts. Currently, for example, the estimated ratio of illegals apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol to the number that get across is about 1 to 3. The new plan, with hundreds of miles of new border fence and almost 20,000 new patrol agents, might close that...