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...Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, were not nominated in their Oscar category. That citation would have been sweet, whatever you think of the movie, since the Academy has nominated a directorial pair only twice before (for West Side Story and the 1978 Heaven Can Wait), and because you could count the number of women nominated for Best Directors on the fingers of a maimed hand. (Three: Lina Wertmuller for Seven Beauties, Jane Campion for The Piano and Sofia Coppola, the only American woman, for Lost in Translation...
...count on it. If anything will bring these campaigns back to reality, it could be the electorate."The saving grace is the voters, who at the end of the day insist on real substance," says Bruce Reed, president of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, who was Bill Clinton's chief domestic policy adviser. But then again, he adds, "they don't always get what they want...
...1960s. But in the past few years, the country has been playing catch-up with places such as China, which used SEZs to kick-start its own incredible economic expansion almost three decades ago. India attracts barely 10% of the foreign direct investment figure for China (although the two count investment in different ways), and wants to close the gap as rapidly as possible. Early last year, the Congress-led government passed a new SEZ law designed to speed up India's economy, in particular its manufacturing sector, by offering further incentives to prospective investors. Since then, hundreds of companies...
...character calls for better fuel economy, stepped-up production of alternative energy and a whole pupu platter of green-sounding goodies. It was enough to make you wonder if the war President steeped in Texas oil has suddenly become a bit of an eco President. Don't count on it. But don't count it out either...
...TIME: The polls currently show you firmly ahead of Labour, but not by a large enough margin to avoid a hung parliament, which means that every vote will count. The British press, particularly its tabloid newspapers and especially the Sun, are credited with influencing the outcome of previous elections. How important is it to you to win their endorsements...