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...interview with Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan proved to be the most enlightening, Gates says. Milchan told Gates that if the 2002 movie Panic Room, which starred Jodie Foster and grossed $100 million at the box office, had starred Halle Berry, it would have made half as much money. According to Milchan, the reason for this disparity would be that white people are “not interested in watching a black woman and her son being terrorized by burglars...
...friends from the Ford Administration, Alan Greenspan and Dick Cheney. According to the book, Greenspan agreed with many of his proposals but could not do much from his Delphian perch. When O'Neill sought guidance from the Vice President about how to install a system that would foster vigorous and transparent debate, he got grumbles and silence but little sympathy. Soon O'Neill concluded that his powerful old colleague was rowing in a different direction."I realized why Dick just nodded along when I said all of this, over and over, and nothing ever changed," he says in the book...
...forces of Cohen’s pedagogy committee are examining the way the College teaches its students writing, the way teaching in general is done and how students learn most effectively, and how to increase both supervised research opportunities for students and the use of technology in order to foster contact between instructors and students...
...social-housing units a year. He wants more jobs in Paris, where the unemployment rate is over 10%. He wants more bike trails, more green space, more child-care facilities. If in the process he can get a signature building or two - a Gehry, or a Norman Foster like London's Swiss Re tower - so much the better. But it won't happen soon. "Now we're taking care of the garden, preparing the earth," says Dominique Alba, director general of Le Pavillon de l'Arsenal, the city's architectural center, and a close adviser to Delanoë. "Later...
Offered the opportunity to exercise direct power--in the Philippines, in China, in Vietnam--America's military representatives on the ground always sought to foster domestic rule on the American national model. Whatever mistakes American commanders have made, even in Vietnam, that of trying to usurp power has not been one of them. Americans are incurably democratic, often to their disadvantage...