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...Rome and bossing around thousands of extras in togas, directors get to re-create a strip of the San Diego Freeway and wreck lots of cars. That's the majesty of being in charge of an action film. In Hollywood you're not a true creator unless you can destroy stuff...
...Again Maybe it's time to hire a temp. After Poland's Prime Minister Leszek Miller yanked away economic control and transferred it to economy minister Jerzy Hausner, Grzegorz Kolodko became the second Finance Minister to quit during Miller's troubled 20-month administration. Kolodko warned that Hausner would destroy attempts to control deficits - jeopardizing euro membership. Some analysts, already spooked by Poland's shortfalls, agreed. "It's a mixed blessing," says Jos Verbeek, a World Bank economist in Warsaw, who hopes economic policy will at least be more coordinated. But Kolodko was controversial, and many business leaders are glad...
...breezy words by U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld last week--"It is also possible that [the Iraqis] decided they would destroy [their WMD] prior to a conflict"--have pulled the rug from under Blair's argument and caused a wave of anti-Blair commentaries. While Bush freely tossed out multiple arguments for war, including alleged Iraqi links with al-Qaeda and the righteousness of changing an "evil" regime, by Blair's tight logic, no WMD meant no war could be legitimate. That could spell trouble for Tony...
...time when the Ivy Presidents talked of changes that might reduce the overall competitiveness of the league’s teams, the Harvard women’s hockey team served as a clear counterexample to the notion that national ambitions destroy the student-athlete experience. No ECAC team had more players earn league All-Academic honors. Few Harvard teams had ever worked as hard in the offseason or had as much fun, whether they were third-line freshmen or seasoned veterans...
Whether that will be enough for Harvard to destroy the ceiling entirely, however, only time will tell...