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Koreeda, a worldwide art-house guru for his spectral memory film After Life, doesn't judge anyone, including the mother. His calm camera observes the four kids quickly falling into the roles of harried parents (the two eldest) or dutiful children (the two youngest). Akira (Yagira) is the dad, treating his sibs with a wondrously gentle authority...
DIED. WALTER WRISTON, 85, financial guru who as chairman of Citicorp from 1967 to '84 redefined the way Americans use banks and set the stage for the company, now named Citigroup, to become the world's largest financial institution; of pancreatic cancer; in New York City. Witty, widely read and dedicated to hiring minorities and women--he was known to sneak women into management posts by using only their initials in correspondence--he expanded bank branches worldwide and offered diversified services like credit-card lending, mortgage banking and real estate development. But his most popular innovation came in 1977 when...
...rapid-response team in Washington. Bush is also counting on outside organizations. Moore, for instance, is starting a new one called the Free Enterprise Fund, with backing from conservatives on Wall Street and in business. A group called Progress for America, which has close ties to Bush political guru Karl Rove, went on the air last week with its first television ad, comparing Bush to F.D.R. Democrats quickly circulated a blistering demand by Roosevelt's grandson James Roosevelt Jr. that the group quit using his grandfather's image: "To compare the courage it took to provide a guaranteed insurance program...
...more than 40 books, the Indian-born doctor-turned-guru Deepak Chopra has offered spiritual guidance to a large and devoted following. In his latest, Peace Is the Way (Harmony; 263 pages), he envisions a world in which citizens make peace a priority and show respect for their opponents. He spoke with TIME's Andrea Sachs about God, war and his own popularity...
...Trans-Texas Corridor has won accolades from conservatives like Wendell Cox, transportation guru at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, who hails it as "the first serious innovative thinking in transportation in a half-century." Texas economist Ray Perryman estimates that the TTC could generate $135 billion in annual personal income for Texans and nearly 2.2 million jobs. But not everyone accepts his projection of $13 billion a year in revenues from the corridors. Kara Kockelman at the University of Texas' Center for Transportation Research warns that NAFTA-generated trade could decline and unforeseen crises, like the terrorist attacks...