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...record: Harry Lewis’ firing was shameful, this resourceful University ought to be able to find grant money for every senior who wants to do something worthwhile for a year after graduation, it is a scandal that some concentrations entrust the grading of theses to graduate students rather than professors, and affirmative action is indispensable to higher education...
Richard Sandor's vast collection of vintage photographs reflects his fascination with divergent thinkers, from Albert Einstein to Fidel Castro to Man Ray. Yet his tactic for saving the earth couldn't be more Establishment. He wants to entrust the task to financial markets...
...like Cagney with a grapefruit - "Sweet Smell" is exemplary for being the very smartest, least preachy expos? on the wages of spin. The film tells us that this, dear ignorant America, is how your entertainment dreams are made: by bartering and bribery. These are the folks to whom you entrust the anointing of the famous: slimes. But slimes with style - for the watchworks of malevolence have their own precision, their own seductive movement. "Sweet Smell" is as much in love as in judgment of the moral squalor it depicts; it whispers invective in Sidney's ear as it pours poison...
...Bill Gates or, certainly, Ken Lay. In the '90s, we treated businessmen as if they were film stars (and we treated film stars like gods). But we lend stars our affections only; we lend businessmen our chance of future prosperity. A lesson from Enron: we would be wise to entrust that responsibility to those with their feet on the ground, not on a pedestal. Even if we built it for them...
...popular support for reform, would you run for President? BLANC: We're launching a series of meetings around the nation to see if we can find that kind of support. If not, then there would be no reason to run. If so, then it would be a mistake to entrust some other candidate to undertake these long-avoided reforms...