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Shooting mostly in California, with a few locations in Japan (including a Kyoto temple whose head monk granted access because he was a fan of Chicago), Marshall got beautiful performances from his cast. Suzuka Ohgo, as the young Chiyo, brings an elfin gravity to the first 40 minutes of the...
Dean Simonton, a psychologist at the University of California, Davis, who studies genius, creativity and eccentricity, believes it's more complicated than that. "Ambition is energy and determination," he says. "But it calls for goals too. People with goals but no energy are the ones who wind up sitting on...
To old-line employers of the old-boy school, this sounds like just one more reason to keep the glass ceiling polished. But other behavioral experts think Vesterlund's conclusions go too far. They say it's not that women aren't ambitious enough to compete for what they want...
The other professors who have been offered tenure specialize in an array of fields. Brent H. Edwards, currently at Rutgers, is an expert on African-American literature. Stanford political scientist Claudine Gay is especially concerned with minority politics. Saidiya Hartman, currently a UC-Berkeley English professor, specializes in feminism and...
Directed by Gore Verbinski Paramount Pictures 3 1/2 STARS Who among us has not wanted to throw a Wendy’s Frosty at Nicolas Cage? Or any famous person, for that matter? There’s something nauseating about the American culture of celebrity, where the great goal is...