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...have deepened. Last week, Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel tried to insist on a last-minute change to the terms of the negotiations to allow for less than full E.U. membership. Much now hangs in the balance. Erdogan's political survival depends on talks going smoothly; if they fail or encounter unexpected resistance, nationalists will gain at his expense prior to elections in 2007. A new nationalist government would be less friendly to Europe. And many believe that turning Turkey away would send a dangerous signal to the Islamic world. "We cannot afford to get this wrong," British Foreign...
...years of running Yale University's endowment, which has $15 billion, he has delivered average annual returns of 16.1%--blowing away the typical college endowment's return of 11.6%. Swensen, 51, author of Unconventional Success (Free Press), spoke with TIME's DANIEL KADLEC on how mutual funds fail the average Joe, why Peter Lynch is misguided and how you should invest...
...used to the actor's teddy-bear persona. Daniels realized it was a stretch, if not a break, from his typical parts. "I took the role because I didn't know how to do it," he says. "It was new, it was unpredictable and there was a chance to fail." Which is what makes his success as Bernard so satisfying. It's the kind of role that nudges viewers toward a career reconsideration of an actor. In this case, it reminds them how reliable and surprising Daniels has always been...
While “Prize Winner” is meant to be a feel-good film about a burdened housewife who uses ingenuity and foolhardy hopefulness to overcome the barriers of a man’s world, her unresolved domestic disputes and the unsympathetic characters fail to make Evelyn’s struggle seem worthwhile. In the end, the die-hard optimism of “The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio” seems more artificial than those Desperate Housewives’ breasts...
...movie also includes too many banal subplots that fail to humanize the stereotypical characters (who no one wants to see as profoundly human, anyway). The awkward moments of teenage self-discovery only further highlight the fact that, yes, the blonde ditz and muscular stud characters have the emotional depth of a Petri dish...