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...number of very strong candidates, but what we were looking for was people who function well in an academic setting, who work well with the community, who bring a very broad vision and creativity,” Summers said...
...appetite for meat didn't mean we lost our passion for sweets, though. As Berkeley's Milton points out, the brain's growth may have been facilitated by abundant animal protein, but the brain operates on glucose, the sugar that serves as the major fuel for cellular function. "The brain drinks glucose 24 hours a day," she says. The sugars in fruit and the carbohydrates in edible grains and tubers are particularly good sources of glucose...
...camera, John Berger once famously said, is a man looking at a woman. Movie romance is certainly a snapshot of a beautiful woman suffering. The main function of Chow?played by Leung as a sensitive gigolo whose smirk can mature into a sigh?is to direct our glance to all the fabulous women in the cast. The camera, mainly manned by Christopher Doyle, prowls around the women like a lover in the first flush of passion. It captures and caresses the actresses' radiance: Lau's bold sensuality, Faye Wong's elfin resiliency, Gong Li's fragile hauteur. Zhang...
...progress in the physical reconstruction of Iraq, a year of occupation has done little to lay the political and institutional foundations for Iraqi democracy. The Iraqi Governing Council, the body handpicked by Bremer to represent Iraqis in a transition to democracy has failed to develop legitimacy, or even to function as an effective steward of a transition process. A year later, the U.S. - this time with help from the UN - is looking to reboot a more clearly scripted transition, with firm deadlines, by appointing a new caretaker body. And the liberal constitution brokered by U.S. officials has been rejected...
This story should really be in the business section. New York Minute is superficially a movie and thus subject to critical scrutiny. (So we'll get that part out of the way: it's pretty awful.) But its real function is to expand the financial empire built by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. At 17, the twins have 34 years of show-biz experience between them, from their debut on the sitcom Full House at the age of 9 months. Since then they have starred in and helped supervise dozens of direct-to-video films and fronted the mary-kateandashley...