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...actress whose breakthrough moment happened around a dinner table with Vince Vaughn in Wedding Crashers, is a nifty performer. Her charms are enough to keep the movie - entering the marketplace just as the country's financial situation becomes truly dire - from being criminally distasteful. She's got that rare gift for making slapstick seem organic. Confessions runs her through the chick-flick moves of endearment (walk into glass, run in high heels, spill food on self and others), but there are a few scenes where she cuts loose and we get to see her Lucille Ball-style warmth and wackiness...
...trip to Iran coincided with a new President's taking office in Washington and a demonstration at Tehran University in support of the Gaza Palestinians. Several thousand students gathered on campus and acted out a page from the standard Islamic Resistance playbook. "The blood in our veins is a gift to our leader," they chanted. "Israel will be destroyed, and Gaza is victorious." Later, part of the crowd reconvened at the former U.S. embassy--now known as the Den of Spies--and burned posters of George W. Bush and Barack Obama...
Paradoxical, maybe, but effective. Consider Amica Mutual Insurance, based in Rhode Island. Amica seemed to be doing everything right: it boasts an on-site fitness center at its headquarters. It pays toward Weight Watchers and smoking-cessation help, gives gift cards to reward proper prenatal care and offers free flu shots each year. Still, in the mid-2000s, about 7% of the company's insured population, including roughly 3,100 employees and their dependents, had diabetes. "We manage risk. That's our core business," says Scott Boyd, Amica's director of compensation and benefits. But diabetes-related claims from Amica...
...strives to create new territory, new inventions. More than just an avant-garde filmmaker, he has defied expectations and created worlds from little pieces of reality. “This is a calling,” Jacobs said. “And one has an obligation to fulfill that gift.” —Staff writer Noël D. Barlow can be reached at nbarlow@fas.harvard.edu...
...inside you,” she tells Lark, starting when Lark is only about nine years old. If Nonie was jealous of her sister, her story would have a little more depth. But it becomes clear that, deep down, Nonie cannot be jealous of a selfless gift (that of children)from her sister. The narrators on a whole are nauseatingly blameless, and in another novel a compelling plot would pick up the slack. However, in 250 pages, the only real plot points are a melodramatic unfurling of family lineage and a rain storm.Another syrupy note in sharp contrast...