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Making a Robert Altman movie is a leap into the unknown for everyone involved, including Altman. Oh, sure, there's a script--in this case by Garrison Keillor, who based it closely on A Prairie Home Companion, the public-radio hit he has presided over since 1974. But Altman is notorious for treating a script as merely a series of signposts. In films from M*A*S*H to Nashville to Gosford Park, he has thrived on improvisation, spontaneity, happy accidents. "What I'm looking for is occurrence, truthful human behavior," he says. "We've got a kind of road...
...What did Yankees owner George Steinbrenner say about Harper's 40-ft. leap during a 2-1 loss two weeks...
...farming practices if it is to avoid chronic food shortages. That is likely to happen only if West Africans can turn agriculture into a successful commercial industry. But farmers there will never be able to compete against heavily subsidized exporters in First World countries. It may seem like a leap to link images of starving children to world trade, but one of the most effective things concerned citizens in the West can do is lobby their governments to drop agriculture subsidies. It's not going to cure all of Africa's problems, but it would be a big step...
Pollees saw no reason that Dartmouth or Columbia should suddenly reverse their skids of recent years to leap out of the league basement, as the Big Green and the Lions rounded out the Ivy League, receiving 36 and 24 points, respectively...
...also a fact that starting a business requires a profound leap of faith, and there Christian entrepreneurs may have a distinct advantage. When millionaire businessman and Cuban immigrant Aurelio Barreto III, 46, dreamed up a chain of mall stores selling cool Christian stuff for teens, even other Christians rolled their eyes. Undeterred, Barreto named his venture C28 (for Colossians 2:8) and has opened six stores since 2001. The loud music is Christian alt-rock, the graffiti on the floor is a blue cross and the toe rings say JESUS NEVER FAILS YOU. "When you walk in here...