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...what about the seemingly arbitrary decision of Ahluwalia’s character, The Chief Steward on the Darjeeling Limited, to capture a cobra using a spatula when a bevy of deadlier tools were at his fingertips?“That was in the script,” said Ahluwalia.DETAILS, DETAILS, DETAILSWhen so much energy is clearly devoted to details, how, then, can Anderson maintain a sense of the big picture? From early on, the director has been criticized for inconsistently reconciling his love of detail-oriented cinema with his job of macro-managing the creative reins. In short, the Texas...
...Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to require public companies to fully disclose their financial risks from climate change. That was followed on Oct. 9 by the launch of the Supply Chain Leadership Coalition, a new grouping of large multinationals, including Nestl and Unilever, formed to encourage suppliers to detail their greenhouse-gas emissions. Both groups argue that climate risk should become an essential part of financial reporting, no different from a price-to-earnings ratio. "This is about being able to judge the viability and the value of your investment," says Jack Ehnes, CEO of the California State Teachers' Retirement...
...conference, brought 25 Harvard undergraduates to a basketball court in Washington Park, Roxbury last night. Echoing an open letter she sent the governor last Friday, Lockridge-Steckel said Patrick has not done enough to fight crime in black communities. “We want him to give an address detailing his strategy for measurably reducing black-on-black crime,” Lockridge-Steckel said. The event came in response to two high-profile violent crimes. Last Saturday, Myron Stovell, a Pop Warner football coach, was shot in the leg near the basketball court that students visited in Roxbury...
...regardless of what the capital's average citizens might think, the meeting is viewed with deadly seriousness by the Party, which choreographs every detail with an obsessiveness that makes a moon landing look sloppy. Tens of thousands policemen and other law enforcement officers are a visible sign of their precautions; other preparations have been continuing for months. Previous Congresses had been preceded by a tightening of control on those whom the authorities consider troublemakers, but the "depth and thoroughness of the crackdown this time was unprecedented," according to Nicholas Bequelin of New York-based Human Rights Watch. Bequelin believes...
...even less. "Media are not allowed to participate in the actual exercise," explained Laura Keehner, spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security. "It is our own training. It's for internal use only, for official use only. You can imagine, for security reasons, if you understood exactly every detail of how the intelligence community works and the details of our operations on a very granular basis during an incident of national significance, those who wish to do us harm could use that information against...