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...girl and earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Besides Hudson, the rest of the cast is relatively unknown. However, every one of the four main characters sparkles, and the interplay between them makes About Adam entertaining throughout. Hudson plays Lucy Owens, a nightclub singer with a knack for being unlucky in love. Her luck changes when she meets Adam (newcomer Stuart Townsend), whose sexy, mysterious performance invokes comparisons to Jude Law. Adam gives Lucy everything she has always wanted in a man-passion, spontanety and love. He even charms the rest of the Owens clan, including Lucy...
...intellectuals who consider every facet of English identity, culture and heritage as something to be despised and attacked. And there are right-wingers who envision a shopping mall in every town. To these people, heritage and culture are something to be packaged and marketed. The English have the unfortunate knack of preserving those aspects of their heritage that should be consigned to history while discarding what should be preserved. A ban on fox hunting may reverse that trend. JON FYNE Shizuoka, Japan...
...upbringing. An Islamic scholar, fluent in five languages, Wahid descends from a line of Javanese holy men, and it is difficult to convince him that he is not infallible. Ever since Wahid became the country's first democratically elected President in three decades, he has shown a knack for picking fights. Says Taufik Abdullah, an expert on Indonesian history: "He has been making enemies from Day One, and I don't think it had to be this way." First, Wahid jeeringly referred to parliament as a "kindergarten"?and never apologized. Months later, he removed several ministers belonging to the three...
Today, less than a month into his new job as Secretary of Education, Paige is bringing his knack for bridge building and his emphasis on measurable results to Washington, where he will spearhead President Bush's most promising effort at winning bipartisan support. Although Bush has pledged to push more local control of schools, Paige says, "We can use the bully pulpit to make the point that no child being left behind is not just a statement of sentimentality...
...sport, there are two types of giants. The first is the figurative giant, the one who towers over his opponents. The second is the literal giant, the one who may or may not have size, but always has a knack for winning when it counts...