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...China's grand and often bloody history is what big films are made for. Unfortunately, confrontation is the last thing President Clinton is looking for this week -- so don't expect this visit to raise David Lean from the dead. Unless someone remakes Farewell, My Concubine...
...example, are currently granting degrees in computer sciences to barely 25% of the number of people industry wants to hire. And new skill sets are in demand because of what Hofrichter of Hay Group calls "almost another industrial revolution." He explains that companies in their quest to become lean and mean have combined old jobs and put together work teams to the point that they no longer look for narrow skills but instead for workers who can do what used to be two or three jobs...
...Lawrence of Arabia (1962). See David Lean's masterpiece on the big screen and you'll be walking out on pretenders like "Braveheart" for the rest of your life. 2. The Wild Bunch (1984). Dirt, grime, blood and Mexicans; a true mod western with all the soul of Melville. 3. Casablanca (1942). Claude Raines adds just enough salt to a movie that is perfect in every way. 4. Bridge On the River Kwai (1957). Too much Lean? Never. 5. The Third Man (1949). Orson Welles gets best entrance -- but you knew that. What puts this film over...
MILES DAVIS (1926-1991) Kind of Blue, Davis' landmark 1959 recording with John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley, was the apotheosis of Cool Jazz. Distilling the music to an almost bare essence, Davis and arranger Bill Evans created a lean, sensuous sound that broke with the intensity of bebop and attracted thousands of new listeners to jazz. Davis' warm, amber tone was the model for a generation of trumpeters...
...knew that we couldn't lean back on our heelsand think the fight was over. "I got to Harvard, Iwon." Harvard is where the fight just began, andwhat distinguished us from the people around uswas how willing we were to work and sweat andstruggle to do better. To be better. Not merelyfor our own sake, but for the sake of the countrythat had given us such a privilege. To whom muchis given, much is expected in return, and few wereever given as much as my classmates...