Word: grand
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...makes American Gangster, which is rather leisurely paced but richly detailed in the way it pursues the minutiae of conspicuous criminality as well as consumption, a more disturbing movie than its makers may have intended. I don't think it attains the Godfather level - it lacks dark passion and grand-scale irony - but it is an intelligent, well-made and seductive movie...
...Jefferson, who hailed humble "cultivators of the earth" as America's "most valuable" and "most virtuous" citizens. Politicians still paint American Gothic portraits of the country folk who toil in the soil to grow our food and fiber. But at the Husker Harvest Days farm show in September in Grand Island, Neb., it was clear how far American agriculture had come from the days when Cornhuskers husked corn by hand...
...amendment last summer to eliminate no-strings-attached direct payments, end subsidies to the rich, boost conservation funding and create a more targeted safety net for farmers having rough years. Kind thought they had a shot. A similar package had gotten 200 votes in 2002 without such a grand coalition, and this time Democrats--who had spent six years complaining about Republican giveaways to the rich--were calling the shots. Even the Bush Administration supported payment limits. During speeches to farm groups, Johanns kept displaying maps of all the subsidy recipients on Manhattan's swank Park Avenue...
...Fall Classics. Last off-season, the Sox overpaid for two free agents, outfielder J.D. Drew (five years, $70 million) and Japanese pitching phenom Daisuke Matsuzaka (six years, $52 million), just like the damn Yankees usually do. These players, however, did produce in the post-season: Drew's grand slam against the Cleveland Indians in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series helped propel the Sox past the Tribe; Matsuzaka's clutch pitching, and hitting, in Game 3 against the Colorado Rockies helped Boston complete the sweep...
...slow idea was what grabbed the headlines out of a sweeping new agenda set out by the SPD at a convention this weekend. Since Merkel edged into a power at the head of a "grand coalition" of the CDU and the SPD two years ago, the Social Democrats have been divided between centrist and left-leaning factions. The party has also been forced to watch as Merkel and the CDU co-opted some of the party's traditional turf on questions ranging from human rights to family benefits. The new platform demonstrably shifts the party to the left, a move...