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...production company is financing on an estimated budget of $25 million. (He doesn't yet have a distributor.) "This has been germinating inside me for 10 years," he says. "I have a deep need to tell this story. It's part of your upbringing, but it can seem so distant. The Gospels tell you what basically happened; I want to know what really went down...
...taller than my thigh, the boy with coal-dark eyes swings himself easily onto my white horse. Feet dangling high above the stirrups, he gallops along the shore of a frozen lake, turns, rears and dismounts with a grace that brings to mind his distant ancestors--the Mongol warriors who swept across Asia...
...start. "The emotional impact is strong," says Pediconi. "But it's hard to think his death will accelerate any major change in the short term. What's needed are new products, and from frozen design to launch takes at least 30 months." In the meantime, two family heirs - from distant generations - will carry on the Agnelli legacy, at least for the time being. Umberto, 68, head of the family's financial holding company, will be only the fourth president in Fiat's 104-year history. The likely second-in-command is John Elkann, the son of Gianni's daughter, Margherita...
...approach to locating planets, called the transit technique, depends upon observing changes in the level of brightness of light that distant stars emit...
Tevye (Kenneth P. Herrera ’03) is a doting but distant father who ultimately wants to please everyone. When Herrera dons the traditional garb of the Anatevka milkman, his booming, benevolent voice sings a song for all fathers trying to protect daughters from the changing world...