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...many movies; he seriously looks like he needs a break. Levinson, who won the Oscar for best director in 1988 for “Rain Man,” is not in top-notch form. In “What Just Happened?” the individual scenes creep along, especially during the first third of the movie as Levinson tries to establish Ben’s world. Between the sluggish pace and De Niro’s uninspired acting, there’s nothing to keep audiences’ eyes open other than Levinson?...
...Fiscal Creep Around Europe, that ripping noise you hear is the sound made by Treasury officials tearing up their 2009 budgets. With the economy slowing, tax receipts are lower than expected, and in Britain, France and elsewhere government spending is higher than forecast. Now comes the bank bailout, and with it, a huge increase in government borrowing. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been the first to detail his national package, and it's making fiscal hawks shudder. It involves injecting up to $65 billion into three British banks - Royal Bank of Scotland, HBOS and Lloyds TSB - in exchange...
When the people left, the animals moved in. Deer, skunks and rabbits creep through the streets of Bensenville, Ill., a blue collar community nestled against the edge of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Rows of houses, a few still ribboned with Christmas lights, lie empty, their doors boarded up. Low-flying jets pierce the silence. Police still patrol for vandals, and contractors tend to unkempt lawns, but in the fading afternoon light, parts of this eerie village resemble a ghost town...
...break world records nearly every time you race, and do it not just once or twice but eight times in a single meet, with the entire world watching, then half your battle is not against the swimmers in the other lanes but against your own demons, the ones that creep up when you hear your name announced over the loudspeaker or when you take your position on the blocks, ready to plunge into the water...
Perhaps it would be unreasonable to expect that, even as the Opening Ceremonies creep closer, the Olympians can think sports 24/7 in the Village. After swearing off extracurricular activity, Trupish, the Canadian boxer, and Kahlon, the field-hockey player, huddled with two countrymen and walked toward the square. "Maybe we can find that girl," one of them said...