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...Green’s personal touch is evident through his encouragement of improvisation and abandonment of the formal script. He readily welcomes “mistakes.” “I like it when people mess up their lines” he said. These surprising elements lend an individual flavor to a movie which is centered on the much-trodden themes of relationships, love, and loss in a small town. About casting “Snow Angels,” Green said, “I want people who have something to say other than what...
...always made the effort to visit the Houses.” The former Treasury secretary also devoted much of his prepared speech to a discussion of the country’s current economic turmoil—in particular, yesterday’s decision by the Federal Reserve to lend up to $30 billion to JPMorgan Chase to absorb floundering investment bank Bear Sterns. Summers said that the takeover was “as dramatic an episode for the U.S. financial system as we’ve had” since the stock market crash of 1987, but he called...
...Dalai Lama's comments came as a dampener for organizers of the Tibetan People's Uprising Movement, who had been hoping that if the Dalai Lama could not lend his support to the march, he would at least refrain from opposing it. Four of the five organizations involved in the movement oppose the Dalai Lama's "middle path" approach of seeking dialogue with the Chinese leadership in search of a "genuine" autonomy for Tibet. They want direct action to seek independence from China, and they want to it now, while the world is watching China as it prepares to host...
...record industry. In its present form, Allscripts manages data for more than 40,000 American physicians. Once the firm merges with Misys, that figure will treble to 150,000 - or roughly one-third of all practicing doctors in the U.S. It's a level of penetration that could finally lend consistency to the country's electronic health-records industry, which to date has been plagued by thousands of conflicting software systems. Along with cost and privacy concerns, doctors often cite this lack of connectivity as a major reason they haven't made the move from paper to digital record-keeping...
...recalls a sad moment from Spitzer's 1998 attorney general campaign: Spitzer had been charged with improperly using his father's money to help finance his career. He denied the truth until the last possible moment, when he finally admitted that his dad made it possible for him to lend his campaign millions. "I looked over and saw this man - thin, in shirtsleeves with frayed cuffs, holding himself in the corner," Sheinkopf says. "I thought, This must be the loneliest man on the planet. And in fact, he turned...