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...lucrative acquisitions seem to be a thing of the past. For every art-house blockbuster like Juno (which took in $229 million globally) or big-ticket festival purchase like Hamlet 2 (picked up at Sundance in January for a reported $10 million), there are hundreds of films floundering and forgotten on the fringe...
...widely believed that Presidents who are good at handling people, who have high emotional intelligence, stand a better chance of pushing their agendas through. But "we put so much emphasis on character because of Nixon," says David Gergen, an adviser to four Presidents. "Until Bush came along, we'd forgotten how important judgment also...
...easier to identify whom the film would like to be about. That's George Herbert Walker Bush, the forgotten-but-not-gone 41 to his son's 43. As played by the 6 ft. 5 in. (2m) James Cromwell, Poppy Bush looms over W. (and W.) as a commanding, commandeering figure. According to the film, he's the master manipulator who sprang Dubya from jail after a rowdy Yale prank, "took care of" a woman his son didn't want to marry and "pulled strings" to get the boy into Harvard Business School. He hates the damage W. has done...
...grass-roots development can be achieved with integral humanism, she added. To stress the importance of the project to India’s well-being, Pathak quoted Mahatma Ghandi’s phrase, “India is a nation of villages.” By returning to forgotten values, like those espoused by Ghandi himself, she said, the next generation of Indians may lead the country in a new direction. During her talk, Pathak compared an ideal village to the human body, where disparate parts engage together to fulfill the needs of society. The transformation of a village into...
...shows up in the novel is Pat’s therapist, Cliff, whom Pat’s brother and friends call a “dot head.” When Pat reveals that he knows Cliff, however, his brother changes his behavior, and the incident is quickly forgotten, if not resolved. The child-like complacency of Pat’s narration only serves to heighten the tension of such comments. Like Pat’s friend Danny, most of the people who populate the novel are walking clichés. Pat’s father is a man whose...