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...challenge for The International - for any thriller that's waist-deep in cynicism - is to create a goal the hero can achieve, whether or not that makes any difference. In the movie world, Clive Owen can track, find and eliminate the bad guy. In the real world, a banker like Skarssen is just one bad guy; and a million more just like him, in London, Geneva, Hong Kong and lower Manhattan, are panting to take his place. They all know that, these days, banks don't even have to steal to increase their wealth. They take a congressional slap...
...cayenne-pepper fast. Jews fast on Yom Kippur; Muslims observe Ramadan; Catholics have Lent; Hindus give up food on 18 major holidays. Done right, these fasts may lead to a state of clarity and even euphoria. This, in turn, can give practitioners the blissful sense that whether the goal of the food restriction is health or spiritual insight, it's being achieved. Maybe it is, but there's also chemical legerdemain at work. (See pictures of Pope Benedict XVI visiting America...
...powerful position to do a lot of good. In the 1990s, Marci Campbell, a professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina, helped launch a four-year trial called North Carolina Black Churches United for Better Health. The project signed up 50 churches with a goal of helping the 2,500 parishioners eat better, exercise more and generally improve their fitness. The measures taken included having pastors preach health in their sermons and getting churches to serve healthier foods at community events...
...there people who bit off more than they could chew and will never be able to afford their homes? Yes. "We need to recognize the goal is not to keep everyone in their houses for as long as possible," says Edward Glaeser, professor of economics at Harvard University...
...knew with Molly in the net, all we needed was one goal to win,” Stack said. “I kind of figured that it was going to be a 1-0 game. It was awesome...