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...into the camera. He deployed little charts, as Ross Perot did in the 1990s, to show that things weren't as bad as people thought. His statistics were heavily massaged and challenged by his opponents, but he had muddied his greatest vulnerability - the stagflating Iranian economy. The real jaw dropper, however, was Ahmadinejad's willingness to attack in the most personal terms. He attacked Mousavi for being supported by former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, whom he flatly called corrupt (a widespread belief among reformers and conservatives alike); he attacked Mousavi's wife Zahra Rahnavard, a famous artist and activist...
...when will it begin? Right now. It's a decent, if familiar, fantasy with a glorious visual design: a lovely jumble of Victorian buildings, sleekly modern costumes and Jules Vernean spaceships. The film's climactic battle, between two imposing CGI ice bears, is a literal jaw-dropper. And its two lead performances made me hope there will be sequels - even if Weitz can't infuse this first episode with the animating spark of grand-scale moviemaking...
...compulsive name-dropper, The Game repeatedly and inappropriately compares himself to hip hop all-stars from the past 20 years. On “It’s Okay (One Blood),” a high-energy head banger, he says, “I’m B.I.G., I’m Cube, I’m Nas, I’m Pac.” Does he actually believe that? I hope not. On the last track, the dazzling “Why You Hate the Game” with the real Nas and Marsha from Floetry...
With a series of crackdowns on stock manipulation, fraud and other forms of malfeasance, Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA) has gotten tougher on corporate crime. But its latest ruling is a jaw-dropper: on May 10, the FSA announced it was suspending most operations at ChuoAoyama Pricewaterhouse Coopers, one of Japan's largest auditing firms, for two months, due to its failure to prevent accounting fraud at client company Kanebo, a textile and cosmetics firm since broken up in a government-led restructuring...
Asked what he had to say to future opponent, Lennox Lewis, Iron Mike gave us this jaw-dropper...