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...nifty polar-bear fight. But the film never cohered, and at the end it trailed off into a preview of the two sequels that now don't look as if they'll be made. The first Narnia movie was middling-bad, its four lead child actors displaying little charm, their world holding lesser wonder. But, hey, it was a hit because the Lewis books had been popular with the parents and grandparents who took their young charges to see it and because the range of ages of the four young heroes gave kids from 6 to 16 someone to identify...
...public displeasure with Sarkozy's leadership, and the growing incidence of conservatives openly defying him and the government to show their disagreement," says Dominique Reynié, a French political analyst and professor at the Fondation National des Sciences Politiques in Paris. Despite the President's recent efforts to alternatively charm and threaten his party members back into order, Reynié says unhappiness over the meager results of Sarkozy's reform agenda have left conservatives disinclined to follow his lead. That wariness among his own allies contributed to the multiplication of problems the increasingly unpopular Sarkozy has faced this year...
...doesn’t get you a job if you haven’t networked, and social charm won’t get you ahead if you have no organizational experience. This is the lesson we will learn the hard way once we’ve left Harvard to better serve our country and our kind: We shouldn’t be Brookes or Laurens; we should be Syeshas...
...cult of Buffett has always been strong, but this year there seemed to be a special longing for the reassurance of his folksy charm. Amid turbulent economic times, Buffett's style of unemotionally buying solid businesses for the long term--forever, ideally--provided a beacon of stability for the investors who packed Omaha's Qwest Center arena, even as he talked about the subprime-mortgage meltdown and the schizophrenia of the credit markets. "Capitalism without failure is like Christianity without hell," he said calmly, framing the recent tumult not as nauseating but as necessary. "You read all these things" about...
...brilliantly realized central roles (partners in crime Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett) that make this musical melodrama go. Arlo D. Hill ’09 is fully at home in the title role. Handsome, brooding, and gaunt, his Sweeney strikes a perfect balance between seething rage and frighteningly easy charm. The audience is enchanted and seduced right up until the moment when Sweeney slits the first of many throats, and even then he retains a large share of his psychotic appeal. And Sweeney, after all, has his reasons. He’s after the lecherous Judge Turpin (Jonathan M. Roberts...