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...television credits. To be so experienced as a child actor can translate on screen to a preternatural poise that, while admirably skilled, tends to creep out us mere mortals. But in her first real starring role as a troubled, Alice in Wonderland-obsessed 9-year-old, Fanning gives the kind of heartbreaking performance that makes you want to yank her off the screen and make it all better. Her work is without contrivance. The same cannot be said for writer/director Daniel Barnz's film. It is earnest, but uneven, sometimes getting lost in its desire to be different...
...private sector and GM and Chrysler are doing with the government may look entirely different today, but the paths will converge as the market for vehicles gets worse. At that point private capital will choose to opt out of the equation entirely. It is not willing to take that kind of risk...
...other words, Washington is providing lots of funding for "social safety net" programs - precisely the kind of programs that poor and unemployed Chinese really need and the government barely provides. Meanwhile, China is throwing money at infrastructure projects to a degree that the U.S. - with its creaky bridges, potholed roads, crumbling schools and obsolete airports - hasn't seen in decades. There is some infrastructure spending in the U.S. plan, to be sure, but not enough, many economists believe, to deliver a real jolt to a moribund economy...
...that sounds daunting, it isn't. Originally developed to help with weather forecasting, chaos theory takes into account that unpredictable forces are always at work, but that with the right analytical tools, underlying patterns emerge and a sort of order - although not the linear kind - becomes clear. Applying it to career-planning is a relatively new thing. People - like my dad, and probably yours - used to go to work for one company right out of college or the military, stay there for 30-odd years, get an orderly series of promotions and raises, and then retire with a nice guaranteed...
...concert, she tells the pianist, “I think we need a change of color.” She associates each note with its own color, though she doesn’t literally see them: “E flat major is a nice burgundy. C major is kind of blue-ish,” she says...