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...retraining is part of Wal-Mart's response to critics who accuse the company of being a repository of faceless, low-paying work. Now it's threatening to get squishy, rolling out an idea called Associates Out in Front, known as active listening in the HR trade. Store managers must meet with 10 associates each week and hear them...
...naughty words and bloody corpses in today's movies, Hollywood is a timid place, at once prurient and puritanical. It's afraid of films that show strong, subtle passions between men and women. If Lust, Caution becomes a hit--a long shot, given its 2 1/2 hr. running time and lack of marquee names--it would be bucking both the NC-17 stigma and the current aversion to serious, old-fashioned screen romance...
Having spent significantly more time at work than the 109th Congress (1,967 hr. vs. 1,433), this Congress has also managed to pass more legislation. Some of those bills count as real accomplishments. Between the House and the Senate, Democrats have passed 122 substantive bills (compared with 77 by their GOP predecessors), including lobbying and ethics reform and an expansion of children's health insurance. But they've also done a lot of speechifying. The number of purely symbolic measures passed by Congress has nearly doubled...
...pace. For Louise Cady-Fernandes, 46, that meant starting a children's sweater company out of a spare bedroom in her Lexington, Mass., home and marketing her designs online instead of paying the rent on a bricks-and-mortar boutique. An added perk: she's deep-sixed the 2-hr. daily commute she had when she worked for a sportswear firm in downtown Boston...
...hr. running time suggests that Wright and Pegg are just a little more in love with their material than I am. But not much. That's why I'm willing to absolve them of any complicity in the Blacksburg massacre. These guys are from England, where the cops don't carry guns and the murder rate from firearms is minuscule. Their homage-burlesque of America's ultra-violent action epics springs from a movie love as innocent and politically remote as an American kid's fondness for science-fiction films. Film violence for Pegg and Wright is not a mirror...