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Tears were plentiful on the Geisha set. For Hatsumomo's final, incendiary face-off with Sayuri, Gong Li stayed on the set all day, crying, never getting out of character. Marshall recalls, with awe in his voice, that "hour after hour, as people worked around her, lighting and moving cable, she stood there weeping, because she couldn't leave that feeling. I've never seen anything like that in my life." After the actress filmed her last scene, she couldn't let go. "When Rob Marshall announced that I had wrapped my role and was leaving," she says...
Many of those who survived the quake have been made homeless. More than 3 million poor will brave a harsh winter, trying to survive. Those people need assistance. Pakistan's resources are grossly overtaxed. Help from the world's wealthy communities in this hour of need would have an everlasting impact...
...every person consumed with the need to achieve, there's someone content to accept whatever life brings. For everyone who chooses the 80-hour workweek, there's someone punching out at 5. Men and women--so it's said--express ambition differently; so do Americans and Europeans, baby boomers and Gen Xers, the middle class and the well-to-do. Even among the manifestly motivated, there are degrees of ambition. Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer and then left the company in 1985 as a 34-year-old multimillionaire. His partner, Steve Jobs, is still innovating at Apple and moonlighting...
With rapid-fire Powerpoint slides and gentle jabs at the language errors of everyone from toddlers to Bill Clinton, Pinker’s two-hour lecture on his research into the composition of language goes down much easier than one would expect...
...that the best lesson that could be drawn from the Cold War was that patience was necessary in order to deal with the threat of nuclear weapons. Perry criticized some aspects of America’s current foreign policy. During the question-and-answer period that followed the one-hour talk, an audience member asked why, given the U.S.’ vulnerability to a nuclear attack, the nation hadn’t taken more concrete steps to combat the threat. “I don’t think we get it, and I think it will take many...