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...Sunai strongly criticized PAD leaders for not demanding that parents with children leave the airports, as a police move against the protesters was being prepared. "They are getting like Jim Jones," Sunai said, referring to the American religious cult leader who led more than 900 of his followers in a mass suicide in Guyana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bangkok Braces for Action Against Protesters | 11/28/2008 | See Source »

...historical rationale for giving government employees better benefits was that they didn't get paid as well," says Jim Edholm, president of Better Benefits Insurance Inc., a benefit-consulting firm based in Andover, Mass. "That has long since lost its validity. Those employed by government agencies tend now to have richer total compensation packages than those in virtually any private industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Government Jobs Looking Better in the Downturn | 11/22/2008 | See Source »

...when she was a college student in Paris, where Denis immediately fell in love with the medium. She did not start making films until years later when she realized she could do nothing else. Denis began working as an assistant director on the sets of both Wim Wenders and Jim Jarmusch. “I was unfit for life, basically,” Denis said in an interview. “And I think cinema was sort of a second life. It was another way to be in contact with my life as an adult, as a woman, more than...

Author: By Mia P. Walker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: French Filmmaker Denis Gets Frank | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...personal and academic ambitions. Hadaway noted that the pair, whose residence is heavily decorated in the motif of the House’s polar bear mascot, has always been willing to contribute their “special gifts” to the Pforzheimer community. “I mean, Jim is a Nobel Peace Prize winner, but he’s always so humble to talk to students on any issue,” she said. “And Sue is an amazing woman who has stories to tell and who is hilarious. She’s crafty, actually...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pfoho House Masters To Leave | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...pajamas” he wears, the boys forge a fast friendship. Bruno brings Shmuel food smuggled from his kitchen and the pair finds ways to play ball and checkers despite the electric fence between them. Bruno is confused by the anti-Semitic propaganda spouted by his tutor, Herr Liszt (Jim Norton), and his older sister Gretel (Amber Beattie), and doesn’t associate his new friend with the portrayal of Jews in the books he’s forced to read. Bruno’s naïveté is one of the film’s most heart...

Author: By April M. Van buren, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas' | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

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