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...film needn't take a prize at Venice to grab the attention of the world press. Michael Moore, whose Fahrenheit 9/11 is the top-grossing documentary of all time, shifted his focus to the financial meltdown in Capitalism: A Love Story. Provocative and wildly ambitious, it expands beyond the housing and banking crises of the past year into an epic of malfeasance: capital crimes on a national scale. With enough corporate villains to stock a hundred melodramas, who is the hero? The writer-director-star himself. There he is, attempting to make a citizen's arrest of AIG executives...
...matter of not playing selfishly,” sophomore Anne Carroll Ingersoll said. “We might have been a little freaked out today about the first Ivy game. If there’s one thing we could take into next week, it’s focus on the team...
...think the team attributes those [losses] to problems in our mentality going into games,” Atkinson said. “I think that’s improved tremendously. We used those games to sharpen our focus, which allowed us to win today. It’s good to get two wins against conference opponents who deserve our respect...
...Bing's ability to focus on the long view is a consistent theme of his biography. He grew up in Washington, D.C., the son of a contractor father and a homemaker mother. After graduating from Syracuse University, Bing played nine seasons for the Detroit Pistons. During that time, he was the rare All-Star talent who understood that there was life after basketball. In the off-season, he worked as a bank teller and manager, grasping for his next career. In 1980 he formed Bing Steel and rode the wave of automotive-industry interest in cultivating a base of black...
...relations with Russia. But what isn't yet known is how warmly the Free Democrats will embrace closer cooperation with France. They won 14.6% of the vote, a record result for the party, and their leader, Guido Westerwelle, is likely to become the next Foreign Minister. His campaign focused on how to revive Germany's economy, and he was vague about broader European issues. In an interview with TIME before the election, Westerwelle didn't refer directly to France but talked about the critical importance of the E.U. as a political entity, not just an economic one. "If Europe hadn...