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This is entirely appropriate, for the movie's subject is superbrainy young people, non-nerd division. They have been recruited to a double-dome school at the M.I.T.-Caltech level by slick Professor Jerome Hathaway (William Atherton), who has an explain-it-all science show on TV and a Government contract to build a particularly unsavory laser-powered weapon. His students do all the hard work, while he glides, snakelike, through the corridors of power. Among his drones are Mitch (Gabe Jarret), an innocent 15-year-old prodigy; Kent (Robert Prescott), who is teacher's pet, half toady, half Gestapo...
...trust-me CEO took another bullet last week, when American International Group (AIG) fessed up to improper bookkeeping in a deal with a unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. AIG severed ties with its iconic former CEO Maurice (Hank) Greenberg. But it is Greenberg's link to the even more lionized Buffett that's causing the biggest stir...
...This wonderful marketing person [at Dutton] came up to me and said, ‘So, for Richard, Orlando Bloom?’” Willig remembers. “We toyed with the idea of Anne Hathaway for Amy….We couldn’t find a role for Colin Firth, which was distressing...
...legal," Spitzer says. And if Greenberg misled investors intentionally, it would be fraud. But most believe he was swallowed by the shifting sand. Ethical lapses that regulators all but ignored yesterday now get their full attention--which should give executives everywhere pause. Even squeaky-clean Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway owns Gen Re, has been sullied. Buffett is not under investigation, but TIME has learned he will be interviewed by Spitzer's office in coming weeks. AIG and Buffett's office declined to comment...
...friend Chris Davis [head of Davis Financial Advisors] told me he was once concerned about how much the U.S. spends on health care as a percentage of GDP. Surely 12% or 13% was unsustainable? He asked Charlie Munger, vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. "Who knows?" Charlie said. "How much is the right amount for a rich society whose population is aging and whose material needs are being met? Fifteen percent? Twenty? Thirty? Fifty? We have no idea...