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...Before the movie is over, fate will get him to Pasadena. What an elder says of him was also true of Chahine: "The boy knows exactly what he wants. He'll make it." At the end he sails into New York Harbor and sees the Statue of Liberty as Glenn Miller's "Moonlight Serenade" plays on the sound track. He glimpses some Hassidic Jews on the deck below him, and the Statue morphs into a heavy-set actress he knew back home. She lets out a ribald laugh - just the reaction Chahine so often wanted from his audiences when they...
...leader. (Everyone is watching Jackie Kennedy on TV giving tours of the White House.) It sounds timely, given the Obama candidacy, but in Don's world, Camelot is less about hope than about anxiety, not a magic kingdom but an invading force. Even the return of space hero John Glenn annoys Don's boss, Roger Sterling (John Slattery), a WW II vet. "I'd like ticker tape for pulling out of my driveway and going around the block three times," he grumbles. "It's not like people were shooting...
...your favorite pianists? -Paul Chow, TorontoI call Vladimir Horowitz "the Magician." He made everything so simple, it was like magic. When Arthur Rubinstein plays, he brings his heart out to you. It's so personal and so warm. And Glenn Gould is a unique genius. You've probably heard many pianists playing the same work, but when you hear Gould, it's like it's brand...
...Both cities are also grappling with the establishment of a permanent public demonstration area that is both large enough and close enough to the delegates so that protesters can be seen and heard. "We are very upset by it," says Glenn Spagnuolo, 37, a law student who is helping to organize Recreate '68, a group that plans to march on the Democratic convention, calling for an immediate end to the Iraq war, among other issues. "The [Denver] mayor guaranteed that we would be in sight and sound of the delegates at the convention, neither of which he has provided...
...Policymakers and central bankers are scrambling to raise interest rates and tighten credit to get inflation under control. But these same measures suppress the investment and consumption that generates growth, threatening to put the brakes on Asia's unusually fast and relatively untroubled expansion. Glenn Maguire, chief Asia-Pacific economist for Société Générale in Hong Kong, estimates that GDP growth in East Asia (excluding China and Japan) could sink from about 6.5% this year to 5% in 2009, the slowest rate since 2001. Inflation, Maguire says, "is the largest risk to Asian growth...