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Extraordinary Measures, based on a book by Wall Street Journal reporter Geeta Anand, describes the mission of businessman John Crowley (Fraser) to find doctors who could develop a drug to treat Pompe disease, a rare genetic disorder that has affected two of his three children. A Harvard M.B.A., Crowley quits his job as a management consultant and moves his family to be near doctors working on a cure. He soon founds his own biotech company to steer and spur the doctors' research. (In the movie, the medics are compacted into the single, ornery person of Harrison Ford.) Do they find...
...most of Measures, screenwriter Robert Nelson Jacobs and director Tim Vaughan take the elevator. They observe the story's complexities and keep the finger-pointing to a minimum. They pump up the tension by obliging John, like a thriller hero caught between the law and the bad guys, to battle both the long odds of finding a treatment and the fiery truculence of Ford's Dr. Stonehill. But while Ford growls and prowls like Darth Vader advancing on Han Solo, Fraser keeps the story anchored in reality. Meredith Droeger does too: as the Crowleys' afflicted daughter, she's a smart...
...country--at one point, Dean decided to pose in an open coffin at a funeral parlor--just months before Dean died in a car accident. Stock's greatest work was his 1960 book Jazz Street. When Dennis died, I found a long-forgotten dedication in my copy: "For John: There is so much in the future to be explored by us. So much to be contributed to our tired field." Amen, Dennis...
...don’t know that it’s enough to incentivize talented people who wouldn’t otherwise go into public service,” said John Chen...
...other hand, junior Brian Hill, sophomore John Dingus, and freshman Jeff Homer seem all quite sure of their position after top-five showings on Saturday. Hill posted a lifetime best 1:50.80 in the 800, just .63 seconds behind winner Elkana Kosgei. The second-place finish matched Hill’s effort from a week ago, marking consistently-strong showings in his third year...