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...from one man's brain. "You could only do that with a Baz," says Meron, meaning Australian director Baz Luhrman. "It's all about his expression as an artist." Burton, an equally idiosyncratic artistic mind, is at work on this year's Sweeney Todd. Some of us are very eager to see what Edward Scissorhands does to meat pies...
...rainfall to the new availability of consumer goods, has driven some farmers into crushing debt. The financial hardships are so extreme that thousands, including Pravin, commit suicide every year. Far from benefiting from the country's new prosperity, whole villages of India's rural poor are being left adrift, eager to join in the boom but unable to afford...
...course, there's a long history of drinking cider in Britain and Ireland. But will consumers beyond those isles submit to the allure of an icy glass of fermented apple juice? Eager to gauge their thirst, C&C is conducting market tests in two European cities - Barcelona and Munich - this summer. And S&N says it expects to offer its cider brands in a variety of Continental markets. Both admit it will be a harder sell. Barring a few exceptions - like northern France - cider drinking is unknown across most of Europe. Fenella Tyler, communications manager for S&N's cider...
...Despite producing an important-sounding document, our student government has failed to show us that it is an effective body for student advocacy. We thus remain apathetic regarding its dealings, elections, and even its self-styled “Declaration of Grievances.” Dozens of eager freshmen declare their candidacy for the UC each fall. By the time those innocent freshmen become realist sophomores, however, student government at Harvard has lost its sheen; some upperclass Houses can’t find a soul to stand for election...
...Massachusetts he bucked the National Rifle Association by supporting the Brady Bill and an assault-weapons ban, boasting, "I don't line up with the N.R.A." Lately what he brags about is that he joined the gun-rights organization as a life member - last August. Romney has been so eager to prove his Second Amendment bona fides that he boasted in New Hampshire, "I've been a hunter pretty much all my life." But then his campaign admitted he had actually hunted only twice, once as a teenager and then last year, on a trip with G.O.P. donors. That...