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Orlean was cagier about whether the gleeful twin—also played by Cage as a foil to the gloomy Charlie character, and credited as a writer of the film—actually exists...
...woman ranked No. 1 in the world in saber. In Athens watch for a sibling square-off; sister Emily qualified in the same event. THE COMPETITION Few will be able to parry Jacobson's advances to gold in this event's Olympic debut (a cavalryman's discipline, it joins foil and epee). But Russia's Elena Netchaeva and first-time Olympian Anne-Lise Touya of France will certainly...
...interracial love story Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. But her defining role came in 1975, when she moved into a "dee-luxe apartment in the sky" in Norman Lear's groundbreaking comedy about an upwardly mobile black family. For 10 years she provided the steadying foil for Sherman Hemsley's peppery George and in 1981 became the first African-American actress to win an Emmy. Her acceptance speech began: "At last...
...enter the political foe—John Kerry, perhaps, or Ralph Nader, if that’s your thing—who smartly identifies this as an opportune moment to present his own vision for American education, a foil to Bush’s stale and recycled rhetoric. He points out the obvious: that true education isn’t just about leaving no child behind, but about moving all children forward—about actively encouraging a culture of excellence...
...wide-ranging conversation on topics such as North Korea, the U.S.-Japan security alliance, and relations with China-all peppered with plenty of criticisms of Koizumi-Okada also made it clear that his sights were set even higher. He spoke not just of becoming an effective foil to the LDP but of actually winning a parliamentary majority in the next major election, expected to take place in approximately two years. "We see this [past] election as a stepping stone to gaining political power," he said...