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...often agreeable lack of presence. He has a thin voice and a passive manner, enlivened by a slightly eerie belief that he's smarter - or anyway more manipulative - than he appears to be. I find him to be a redeeming, even lovable, presence in not-so-hot movies. But he is not a great physical comedian, and it is asking a lot of his recessive screen character to carry film virtually single-handed. He needs the kind of help he got in a well-written , cleverly-plotted comedy like The Wedding Crashers, which is precisely what is not provided...
...measure of the sun's polar regions. If it swirls, floats or emanates near the sun, Ulysses studied it. The spacecraft discovered that the sun's magnetic field determines the regions that produce the solar wind, and ruffled more than a few scientists' feathers when it showed that a hot corona produces the fastest solar winds--exactly the opposite of prevailing theories...
...matter here that Pasquarelli had come to architecture from investment banking and that Coren had a degree in business and marketing?not backgrounds that dispose you to think of philosophy as a hot career path. "We didn't want to do anything that was not exciting in terms of design," Coren says. "But at the same time, we believed in running a successful business. That was a central idea that brought us together...
...visitors over the summer to eat, drink, lounge and just caper around the thing. And that taught the SHoP team an interesting lesson in finances. "One day we did a quick calculation," says Pasquarelli. "Five dollars admission per museumgoer plus an average of two beers plus maybe a hot dog or a hamburger times 10 weekends. We had generated somewhere between half a million and a million dollars in revenue for the museum." Meanwhile, the firm's design fee had been only $10,000, with a $50,000 construction budget. "That really made us think about how we could...
...Court's verdict, which could be issued in June, will reshape the legal landscape for this hot-button issue. "An entire provision in the Bill of Rights is really at stake in this case," says Nelson Lund, a professor of constitutional law at George Mason University School of Law, referring to the first 10 amendments to the constitution. If the Court determines that the right to bear arms is conferred only upon state militias and not individuals, Lund says, "The Second Amendment would become, essentially, a dead...