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...makes sure to not get stuck in one character or type of film. He has a Joel and Ethan Coen movie coming out in which he plays an idiot (as he did in their O Brother, Where Art Thou?), and he's working on a movie about the founder of est and a comedy about the 1979 Tehran hostages who escaped. The next movie he directs and co-stars in is Leatherheads, a screwball comedy about pro football in the 1920s that comes out April 4. "After Syriana and Good Night, and Good Luck I was offered the Richard Clarke...
Poker is no longer just a game. The Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society, recently founded by Harvard Law School Professor Charles R. Nesson ’60, has put the pedant back into poker. “It’s about teaching thinking,” remarks Nesson, founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. “Strategic games like poker really lead into the mathematics of social interactions and economics.” GPSTS, he says, is “an effort to legitimate poker as an educational tool and strategy.” Nesson...
...with the Institute of Politics (IOP) hosted a panel last night to discuss hip hop’s political and cultural effect on the current generation. “Hip hop is important because of its influence; in that way, it has political power,” said co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records Damon Dash. “There’s an awareness that can be brought from hip hop.” Last night’s panel featured a diverse group of participants, including a Boston pastor and community leader and a prominent race scholar...
...museum's late founder, German-born industrialist Emil Georg Bührle, made his fortune selling weapons to Germany during WWII. He studied art history and was 30 years old when he began amassing his collection, but his holdings have proven controversial. At least 13 of the artworks he owned at war's end were included on British specialist Douglas Cooper's "looted art list," which was used to recover pieces stolen from Jews by the Nazis. A five-year study undertaken by the Swiss government determined in 2001 that Bührle, who died in 1956, had acquired "flight...
...returning to the private sector. And though it'll be managed by Sandler "at arms length," as Brown insisted to reporters Monday, the potential for further government embarrassment remains high. Shareholders of Northern Rock - unlikely to get much in return for their investment - are threatening legal action. Robin Ashby, founder of the Northern Rock Small Shareholders' Group, said the bank had been "stolen away from them." Worse still, the dirty business of trimming the bank's 6,000 strong staff - something Sandler is expected to do - or repossessing homes, suddenly becomes the government...