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...taking over network [in terms of] ad dollars. It seems like cable's kind of the place to be. So I'm glad that I'm there now. I feel a little bit ahead of the curve. But I don't get too upset about any kind of comparison like that. I don't take myself that seriously. (See the top 10 moments from the late-night...
...prim, reserved and historic counterpoint to the youthful, debauched Ritwik, Gilby is not entirely a success. The drive of her narrative is weak in comparison to the drama, passion and unpredictability of Ritwik's existence, and for much of A Life Apart, the links between her story line and that of her maker are tenuous, leaving the reader at a loss as to how these two interrelate. Only in the book's second half, when Ritwik is living in London illegally, working part-time as a male prostitute and looking after the elderly, incontinent Anne Cameron in exchange for free...
...Colonel Lewis "Chesty" Puller and Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone are incorporated into the narrative's bloodstream. Eight of its 10 hours rain valor worthy of a Medal of Honor. (If the roughly two hours of romantic sequences of Marines falling head over heels in love seem hokey by comparison, chalk it up to the demands of serial entertainment.) Nearly every prop used in the miniseries is an exact replica. "Steven [Spielberg] and I wanted to provide people with an accurate visual sense of time and geography," Hanks says...
...environmental costs. Says Barbier: "When we incorporate the services of ecosystems we may start to think: maybe the costs of maintaining [the integrity of] ecosystems aren't that high compared with the benefits. Maybe the gains we get out of converting nature into commodities are not so large in comparison. The point is that we don't see that tradeoff until we go out and measure that value...
...changing the way that students perceive themselves, these schools are transforming communities. A study by Johns Hopkins in 2007 found that “Even when pre-existing differences between KIPP and comparison students are controlled in statistical analyses, KIPP students generally outperformed comparison school students on achievement measures.” KIPP schools and other similar institutions are largely successful because they invest in developing the identity of their students...