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...Actually, the most disconcerting aspect of the new Pelham 1 2 3 is the sight of Washington, the usually impeccable movie hero, sitting at a subway dispatcher's console. The star looks puffy and has a gut you could park a Hummer on. Weighing in at a sedentary 220 lb. (100 kg), he's playing a desk jockey burdened by the usual bureaucratic bull plus a scandal that has put his career in the commode. (In the original film, Matthau rarely rose to anger; he was a weary, wily guy, just doing his job. This time it's personal...
...Lepre, managing partner and principal at marketing behemoth the New England Consulting Group. "When Lee Iacocca had trouble, he took a very offensive and aggressive stance: 'We build better cars; go ahead and try us.' " He thinks GM should show less regret and more grit. "Americans love the fallen hero who has struggled but is now doing it tough and spending extra time in the batting cage," he says. In the new GM ad, the felled goalie stays felled. (See the best and worst Super Bowl commercials...
...draws and suddenly you've captured a huge number of potential subjects. But expanding the study costs money. Second Wavers like Georgetown bioethicist Maggie Little have begun searching for members of Congress who are willing to take up their cause. "This issue could make somebody on the Hill a hero," she says...
After serving in Chechnya, Shamanov was decorated a Hero of Russia, while Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said he "deserve[s] the deepest respect" for his "great contribution to the success of [the] counterterrorist operation [in Chechnya]." Part of that contribution came during operations in the village of Alkhan-Yurt in 1999. In its report, the HRW says that during fighting in the area, "Russian troops under Shamanov's command committed at least 14 killings that amounted to extrajudicial executions...
When Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner unveiled the details of his plan to save America's banks a little over two months ago, the markets raved, the country sighed with relief and Geithner went from punch line to potential hero overnight. Now the plan is in trouble, as parts of it struggle to get off the ground and others are dead in the water, Administration officials say. But oddly, that may be good for Geithner...