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Perot also devoted significant verbiage to bashing Congress and President Clinton. In particular, he criticized the Clinton health care plan because under it, "the small businessperson will be nuked--that...
...seems probable that his roles also shape Tom Cruise as a person. He explained that acting is like being a lawyer or a businessperson; actors have to bring their work home with them. Although he claimed he does not stay in character off the set, he says he constantly thinks about his characters after work. He said he becomes his characters, because "you can't fake emotion." (I started to wonder how much practice went into creating that superb air guitarist.) Lest I misinterpret his commitment to his characters, Cruise clarified, "That's not to say I go home...
...beginning of the American Repertory Theatre's production of The Cherry Orchard, Yermolai Lopakhin rouses himself in the middle of the night to greet a train. Although the businessperson wakes up, he seems to wake into a dream in which everything is slightly off-balance. Director Ron Daniels' airy, sweetly comic production emphasizes the imblances of Chekhov's picture of a changing world...
...doctor might have been a more appropriate choice, I suppose, but according to the author, that would reinforce the stereotype of Asians as "math/science types." Perhaps the Foundation should have picked a businessperson--but then that would reinforce the stereotype of the Japanese manufacturers who "steal American jobs." The best alternative, then, would have been a politician, who not only breaks free from stereotypes, but also posseses the ability to advance the Asian "agenda," whatever that might be. Not only is this reasoning ridiculous, it reeks of political correctness...
Hart presented one of the club's speakers, aRussian businessperson from Siberia, with abusiness card reading "Dan Hart Consulting," Genovand others said...