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...make decisions that keep our career going, but that's a distant second to making things that we care about and that we have fun making. We always made these little things for our friends and our fans, and at the dawn of YouTube, some of them just caught on. And we had no idea of the sorts of numbers that were conceivable...
...recent morning, a crowd filled a downtown Detroit courtroom for the sentencing of a 19-year-old ninth-grade dropout caught breaking into a public school, apparently to steal computers. The hearing's main attraction was not the guilty man or the judge but Robert Bobb, the state-appointed emergency financial manager of Detroit's public schools. In the last six months of 2009, Bobb told the court, nearly 500 computers were stolen from schools, costing his system some $600,000. "The Detroit public-school system isn't an electronics store," he said...
Soon Simmons had caught the eyes of virtually every top filmmaker in Britain. After her turn in Great Expectations, Olivier tangled with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger over who would win her services, either as a Himalayan dancing girl in Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus (1947) or as Ophelia in Hamlet (1948). The directors finally agreed to rearrange their schedules so Simmons could appear in both films. In Black Narcissus she donned brownface to play the Himalayan girl Kanchi, who performs a wild native dance (it's mostly just running) and gets whipped for her insolence. Simmons's blond...
...Brown's surge caught national Democrats napping. But their GOP rivals moved fast in December when they noticed an internal poll that showed Brown closing the gap to only 13 points against Coakley. What really grabbed their attention, however, was something deeper in the data: among those most likely to vote, Brown was only 4 points down. In early January, the National Republican Senatorial Committee quietly dispatched staffers to Massachusetts and shifted $500,000 to the state party - a huge plug of cash that wouldn't show up on its campaign filings until after the election was over...
...millions out of poverty. Economic liberalization, however, has not been accompanied by similar political freedoms. While Vietnam continued to grow and its citizens prospered, there was little groundswell of support for multiparty democracy. But the recent economic downturn, coupled with several high-profile corruption scandals where officials have been caught with their hands in the till, has hurt the Communist Party's image and threatens to undermine its rule...