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...films as a director, including the Oscar-winning Million Dollar Baby and a feature-length documentary, Piano Blues. On Christmas Day there'll be another movie, Gran Torino, which he stars in as well as directing. He couldn't do this if he didn't work fast (and relatively cheap). Screenwriters love him; if he likes a script, he shoots it without demanding a million rewrites. Actors love him too; if he likes Take One, he prints it and goes on to the next scene. Decisiveness is fine, but it raises the question: What does it take to satisfy Clint...
...political analyst at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University - or the current divisions over him that have Thailand's people on the edge of violence. Sometimes said to be the most divisive political figure in Thailand's history, Thaksin remains enormously popular with the rural poor for his populist policies like cheap health care and easy credit. But the billionaire businessman is also still reviled by the urban middle class and conservatives, who view him as a corrupt authoritarian whose power and wealth posed a threat to the nation's revered monarchy...
...someone could stand up to those Wall Street types. It would be great if I could get a raise, or keep my health insurance instead of crossing state lines looking for a new one. Heck, with these gas prices I wouldn’t cross state lines for cheap booze. And you have to read all these pages of fine print to buy insurance. Page upon page of reading—that isn’t American...
...lies within one of the company’s original concepts: to shift away from industry standard, overseas sweatshop labor. In the late 90s and early oughts—a.k.a. when things were absurdly good on Wall Street—the idea of using expensive labor to make traditionally cheap goods was possible because a large number of people were willing to pay over the “Made in China” price for the sake of a moral gimmick. Now that prices are rising across the board, particularly for necessities like gas and food, people are far more...
...Cheap Rooms, Airfare Included. If you're traveling this fall, consider staying at Holiday Inn or Holiday Inn Express. Guests who book the "Stay to Fly" rate now through Dec. 31 will get a flight voucher for $198 toward a domestic ticket, or $298 toward destinations in Canada. (Flights must be booked 21 days in advance, and include a Saturday night.) To entice you to stay, Holiday Inn's parent company, IHG, which also owns Intercontinental, Crowne Plaza, Hotel Indigo, Staybridge Suites and Candlewood Suites, has partnered with Google Earth and created a new search tool for visitors. Guests...