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...romantic comedy that adds nothing new to the genre. Tripp (McConaughey), a womanizing bachelor coasting through his thirties, is still living in his childhood home. His fed-up parents (Kathy Bates of “About Schmidt” and football star Terry Bradshaw) hire Paula (Parker), a professional interventionist who makes men fall in love with her so that they will move out of their parents’ pads. Tripp and his buddies have it great: they don’t have to do laundry, clean up after themselves, or go grocery shopping. The only catch is that their...
...Godfrey says. “Primarily, I have worked in galleries in museums, sculpture parks.”He continues, “When you see something in a gallery or in a sculpture park… you are prepared to encounter something unusual. I like the interventionist kind of quality of how this piece works in a place like Cambridge, it’s a physical insertion into a space.” The companion exhibit, “Pamplona Inside,” is very public as well. As part of 344 Broadway’s Cambridge City...
...ranking title of assistant to the President and a seat on the National Security Council, not to mention his own CIA intelligence briefing every morning, just like his two bosses. From that powerful position, Libby helped the Vice President in his first term cement his reputation as a bold interventionist abroad and a friend of the corporate world and its oil companies at home. When Cheney quietly tried to bring a more experienced political hand on board to steady his creaky operation in late 2004, Libby maneuvered even more quietly behind the scenes to keep...
...wearing sneakers to his swearing-in ceremony in 1985 as Environment Minister in the state of Hesse. His appointment as German Foreign Minister, the highest post held by a Green politician, lent Germany a distinctive presence on the international stage, one enhanced when the former anti-militarist turned humanitarian interventionist backed German troop participation in Kosovo and later questioned Donald Rumsfeld on the eve of the Iraq war. ("Excuse me, I am not convinced," he told the U.S. Defense Secretary about claims that weapons of mass destruction were hidden in Saddam Hussein's Iraq.) Schr...
...reforms had stalled and the President had failed to use the bonanza in oil revenues to shift the economy away from its near total dependence on oil and gas and toward a more diversified set of exports. In December, Illarionov warned that Russia had once again returned to "an interventionist model with dramatic and utterly incompetent interference from the state...