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Last October, when British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Finance Minister, Alistair Darling, unveiled their emergency intervention to recapitalize U.K. banks, they did so in front of a capacity crowd in the oak-paneled suite of rooms at 10 Downing Street, which are used for the Prime Minister's press briefings. At this morning's sequel performance, when Brown and Darling presented their new emergency plan to try again to get banks lending, journalists were outnumbered by their hosts and attendant staff. In just a few months, the prospect of the government spending billions of pounds of taxpayers' money...
...with the oaf-hero Sidhu (Akshay Kumar), chopping away in the shop of his Dada (Mithun Chakraborty). Some visiting Chinese folks ID him as the incarnation of their nation's greatest warrior, Liu Sheng, and think Sidhu is just the fellow to rid their village of the oppressive Hojo (Gordon Liu). Accompanied by his raffish translator Chopsticks (Ranvir Shorey), Sidhu travels to the Great Wall, where his life is saved by a mysterious beggar (Roger Yuan) with twin Indo-Chinese daughters: the TV hostess Sakhi and Hojo's henchwoman Suzy (both played by Deepika Padukone) who were separated at birth...
...tribute to how well the show executes its purpose. It follows Cal Lightman, an expert on "microexpressions" who reads blinks and grimaces to catch deceptions and solve crimes. Lightman is played pugnaciously by Tim Roth, who expands on the successful Fox philosophy, embodied by Simon Cowell and Gordon Ramsay, that Americans long to be judged by crabby Brits...
...full schedule of in-town meets forthcoming. “From wire to wire, we executed the game plan just as we wanted to,” Saretsky said. Harvard has just four meets left before the Indoor Heptagonals, but three of those meets will be at the hometown Gordon Track. The Crimson’s next meet—its only “away” meet—is at the Boston University Track across the river. “The best part is being able to run so much in front of a home crowd...
...Money makes people feel secure, but one day if something happens to them, they will realize, that’s not what makes their life meaningful.”—Staff writer Edward-Michael Dussom can be reached at emdussom@fas.harvard.edu.—Staff writer Gordon Y. Liao can be reached at liao@fas.harvard.edu...