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...damaging the Attorney General's office and his own reputation for rising above politics. In the Knesset, he is referred to, with both awe and fear, as "Super Manny." He avoids any show of favoritism; even his best friends don't know how he votes. Supporters and critics alike credit him with banning elected officials from doling out government jobs to party apparatchiks, a move that has reduced influence peddling. Friends say Mazuz, the son of poor but scholarly Tunisian immigrants, likens himself to a surgeon, cutting away corruption before it spreads into the body politic. He works relentlessly, immersing...
...without fear of government censorship." Perry dismissed such concerns, saying censorship was "not going to happen" in Texas. But Stevenson warns that the caveat will backfire and hurt the Texas' effort to woo back film business it has been losing to other states, which have passed more generous tax credit and incentive programs...
...insult to injury - an estimated $327 million in spending and 4,600 jobs - 12 of the films had Texas story lines, according to the state's film commisison. Professional crews who had settled in Austin, Dallas and Houston now found themselves working in Shreveport, where a generous Louisiana tax credit increased film industry projects by 300% in three years. "Ten years ago, we were in the top five, now we are down the list - still in the top 20," Hudgins said. "We haven't lost it yet, but this could be a make or break year...
...This may in part because it was Michael Cunningham, author of the book The Hours, another stupefying exercise in unspoken angst, who was hired to punch up the script Susan Minot was trying to make out of her novel. They share screenplay credit for Evening, but even in the press kit you can sense her loathing for his work. He's sort of Henry James without the cojones and definitely the most constipated sensibility the literary community has lately been in awe of. But I suspect that the director, Lajos Koltai, a Hungarian, has even more to do with...
...might be over. In the past few weeks, there have been indications that there aren't as many people as there used to be who are willing to buy the bonds private equity shops need to sell to finance big buyouts; a number of deals have been put off. Credit runs in cycles and this, it seems, might be the top. You might consider it exhibit A that the people most in tune with that cycle, those running firms like Blackstone, are deciding to sell some of their stake to the public. Companies usually go public to raise capital...