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...psychologically damaged its men. Although Mendes references ideas from other war movies, he donates new ones to the genre. When the soldiers march through a night lit only by oil well fires, he gives us a harrowing tableau just as apocalyptic as anything Coppola imagined. However, Mendes is hamstrung by a weak script. Few of the characters get the development they deserve. Gyllenhaal does a serviceable job of slowly going insane, and Sarsgaard is searing; he’s far from the fey foil he usually plays. But Foxx is forced to do the best he can with...
...April 27, 2004 Executive Order (EO), which called for the spread of electronic health records to promote cheaper and more efficient health care. In response to the EO, HHS has launched a number of programs promoting health IT. But efforts to assess the spread of health IT have been hamstrung by the lack of standard definitions or measures for the new technology. According to Blumenthal, their research will provide future surveys of health IT implementation with comprehensive best practice guidelines, addressing part of the problem. Unlike past research, this study will call on both doctors and hospital administrators to refine...
...capital Kabul, however, much of the hinterland remains poor and lawless, often controlled by rival warlords and drug barons who do not answer to the central authorities. The presidential election that Hamid Karzai won last year should have given the divided country a unifying leader. But Karzai has been hamstrung by the lack of a parliament or local government bodies, and many Afghans derisively call him "mayor of Kabul...
...learn that scientists too are struggling with ethical dilemmas. In the past when a controversial new technology came along--recombinant DNA, for example--the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would set the scientific and ethical standards for research. But with embryonic stem cells (ESCs), the NIH has been hamstrung by President Bush's 2001 order allowing it to fund only research using the limited and imperfect cell lines already in existence--not exactly cutting-edge science. Relegated to a minor role in the field, the NIH thus has not done its usual job of defining the field's perimeters...
...institutional stock and bond trading is on a roll, and mergers and underwriting are picking up steam - all strengths of the old Morgan. No wonder the bankers want their firm back. This is a time when they should shine but feel hamstrung by Purcell, who is loyal to his underachieving brokers and keeps his bankers on a short leash. Purcell declined to be interviewed...