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...based banker and arts patron Ilyas Khan bought out the publication. He restyled it as the ALR, publishing it under the umbrella of his Asia-focused literary publishing agency and film-production business, Creative Work. "We purposely decided not to restrict ourselves to Hong Kong," says Khan, previously a director of the Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival and a former Hong Kong resident who has a penchant for collecting rare editions of George Gissing and Henry James. "Our objective was to do things properly, on a much bigger, broader scale ... [and] publish an Asian literary journal that competes globally...
...director of quantitative analysis for PayScale, defends the exclusion. He doesn't think it's fair, for example, to credit his undergraduate institution (Swarthmore College) for the salary premium he gets for having a Ph.D. from Yale University...
...right about that. But what is this ranking really saying about higher education? That every student's goal should be to make as much money as possible, betterment of the world be damned? As Bruce Breimer, former director of college guidance at New York City's prestigious Collegiate School, says, "This is only one way to judge success...
...moments when Streep's channeling of Child's speech patterns caused me to yelp with pleasure. She ends up at Le Cordon Bleu cooking school and discovers, triumphantly, that she has talent for it. She's also very pleased to defy the expectations of the Cordon Bleu's snooty director (Joan Juliet Buck), who didn't believe an American housewife stood a chance in this mostly male arena. Soon Julia and two of her new French friends are toiling away on the cookbook that will transport these gastronomical joys across the Atlantic, touching and transforming many American lives, including that...
...this last category, and cannily the movie lets us see how the wheels turn in her head. Ephron includes Child's real-life reaction to Powell's blog and lets it stand; she doesn't try to turn the two women into soul sisters, an unusual move for the director who has brought us so many happy, tidy endings (Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail). Powell is not devious or awful, but she's not exactly a basket of kittens either - not on the pages of her book and not as portrayed by the extremely game Adams...