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...wonder why it persists, so pervasively. Well, those blue jeans slung low on your hips have not helped. Those glimpses of butt cleavage have led to some prejudices. With an iPod in one ear and a cell phone over the other, you don?t look the part of an eager Horatio Alger...
...Ceylan the director loves taking long closeups of Ceylan the actor, he's worth it; this is a face, craggily attractive, that rewards extended attention. A third is that the movie occasionally reveals a wry, wise sense of humor. On his second encounter with Serap, she is the one eager to have sex, he the reluctant one. As she cuddles up, he suddenly takes notice of a TV news report on a natural disaster. Won't you make love? she asks. He shakes his head. "Earthquake," he says - the Turkish equivalent of "Not tonight, dear, I have a headache...
...investors struggled to raise cash at almost any price. The main reason that it has become so easy for the advanced economies to source back-office support in Asia is because communications costs collapsed at the very moment that emerging markets were producing a skilled generation of information workers, eager to embrace a life-changing opportunity. The end of the cold war had similar long-term consequences, since it was followed by the integration into the world economy of virtually all of those countries which, by choice or not, had been excluded from it. The global supply of manufacturing labor...
There's no reason to believe that the Americans' battle against Iraqi insurgents is going to get better. With U.S. support for the war sinking, the Bush Administration is eager to show that sufficient progress is being made toward quelling the insurgency to justify a drawdown of the 133,000 troops in Iraq. The U.S. praised the naming of a new Iraqi Cabinet last week, even though it includes some widely mistrusted figures from the previous government. And even as commanders try to turn combat duties over to Iraqi forces and pull U.S. troops back from the front lines, parts...
...week before the New Year, and Barça had no matches scheduled. But to celebrate the holiday season, the club had opened the doors of its stadium, the Nou Camp, to the public, gratis. I sat in a line in the parking lot with young kids, eager to catch a glimpse of the pitch, and old men, eager to visit the trophy case--and I converted...