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...completion next year. The 34-hectare Korda Studios plans to lure big-budget productions from neighboring film centers such as Prague, where blockbuster Mission: Impossible was shot; even staunchly British characters like James Bond and Harry Potter may soon be eastward bound. Should British studios be worried? Generous tax breaks for film producers in Hungary mean "U.K. studios have suddenly become much more expensive" in comparison, says London filmmaker Jonathan Schutz. "Hollywood is looking elsewhere." But does Bond like goulash? - By John Nadler...
...joins other prestigious private universities including Harvard, Yale, and Princeton in implementing more generous financial aid packages to level the playing field for economically disadvantaged students...
...Generous leads evaporated into thin...
...Knopf; 721 pages) and 109 East Palace: The Secret City of Los Alamos (Simon & Schuster; 424 pages). To grasp the full dimensions of Oppenheimer's humiliation, you need to understand not only the currents of American postwar paranoia but also the tangled particulars of the man himself. Even a generous evaluation of his fate would call him complicit in his downfall. Whether through hubris or naiveté, he refused to take seriously that his years of association with communists would open him to suspicion. American Prometheus tells his story at length and exceedingly well. The authors, Kai Bird and Martin...
...have destroyed themselves precisely by incarnating themselves. Toward the end of his life, Charles Dickens, pressed for money, set off on grueling reading tours in which he became "Dickens," a lecture-hall version of himself. The labor exhausted him and hastened his death. Ernest Hemingway was a splendid man--generous, intelligent, full of curiosity and energy and talent--until sometime in middle age, when he became "Ernest Hemingway," a besotted parody of himself...