Word: crashing
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...have to disagree with your critic's assessment of the movie Crash--that "people either like the movie or loathe it" because "it is too wide-ranging to really draw you into the lives it recounts" [Feb. 27]. People loathe it because they are forced to recognize their own flaws in the ugly and in some cases unforgivable failures of the movie's characters. I loved Crash because it is not just a story about the people of Los Angeles but also a beautiful film that shows the very real flawed and fractured lives of regular Americans...
...business school seminar. On the witness stand, testifying for the prosecution against his former colleagues Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, he spoke slowly and clearly, using easy-to-understand metaphors. When asked a question he often backtracked to give fuller, more detailed answers. His testimony was like a crash course in the financial shenanigans that led to Enron's collapse. One lawyer in the audience said listening to Fastow testify for one hour was like reading about the company...
...cautiously) followed the European economic way. The paradox of this chiasm between the European deficit of sovereignty and the American deficit of discipline is that if both blocs continue to follow their respective paths, each will probably hit its own wall, but, by trading courses, both can avoid a crash. Moreover, what is now one areaâs liability could tomorrow become the otherâs asset...
...Governor of Utah. The state has filed suit in federal court to void the NRC license on the grounds that the spent fuel would sit dangerously close to an Air Force training path. F-16 fighter jets roar overhead on 7,000 sorties a year. Should one crash into the steel-and-concrete casks, state attorneys argue, cancer-causing radiation could waft over Salt Lake City. Moreover, the state says, used fuel rods, parked aboveground, would be a target for car bombers or airplane hijackers--"a terrorist's dream come true," says Governor Jon Huntsman Jr., adding...
...wrong, no one is saying that the acting skills Howard displayed in his portrayal of a desperate, struggling black man living a life of crime and exploitation werenât worthy of some praise, but he also did a fantastic job this year in âCrash,â portraying an upper-middle class black man struggling to maintain his dignity and hope in an oppressive white world, and was unsurprisingly nominated for the former role. The Academyâs choice to nominate Howard for his portrayal of a stereotypical pimp, rather than to reward...