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...Bill Farley, the aroma is nothing if not enticing. By one count, he's tried to get versions of the bill through Congress six times in recent years. Perhaps seven's the charm...
...Vault Reports' book explains the subtleties of being a good office politician, and how to charm your boss, your co-workers and your clients. It's not only the upper tiers of the corporate hierarchy that you should pay attention to, says the guide. "Never assume that someone is not worth schmoozing or is too busy to talk to you." What companies are the best practitioners of schmooze? According to the guide, No. 1 is General Mills, which, the authors say, is "a marriage factory." For those who find the concept of schmoozing too calculated, the authors argue that such...
Half a dozen college chums reune to reminisce, bicker and bond. This agitated comedy (produced by Lee's cousin Spike) could be called The Big Chillin' if it had a smidge of the 1983 film's wit and charm. It's nice to see an African-American story set outside the 'hood, and we'll keep calling hunky Taye Diggs a star of the future until he's 60. But he'll have to be in movies better than The Best...
...volatile team of medics in Bringing Out the Dead is often more battered and disturbed than the patients spewed from the streets are. John Goodman as Larry enters with his overweight working man's charm and bravado, and the audience is fooled into thinking this will be the routine buddy-cop movie with jolly, fat guy exchanging caustic one-liners with his thinner, but emotionally more substantive, partner. However, as the wheels spin out, the film takes the audience along for a more complex, hellish ride that visits death, madness, and despair on every street corner. Ving Rhames as Marcus...
Losing international markets would be catastrophic for the U.S. tobacco industry - luckily, for them, smoking hasn't yet lost its discreet charm in the developing world. The World Health Organization on Monday launched negotiations on a treaty to curb worldwide smoking and ban tobacco advertising, hoping to capitalize on the growing anti-smoking sentiment in the U.S. courts and political system. But curbing tobacco use in the developing world may require cultural as well as legal changes. "Despite accusations that the U.S. is dumping poisonous products on unsophisticated markets, a lot of people in the Third World actually like...