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...that it is not just money that makes a nonprofit foundation succeed or fail; it is also talent, expertise and creative ideas--the same attributes that make a profitable business. This is the sort of thinking that is "breathing fresh air into the whole world of philanthropy," says Lester Saloman, director of Johns Hopkins Center of Civil Society Studies. The venture-capital community--especially blue-chip firms like Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which has funded Google and Amazon.com among others--believes it has honed its skills at picking winners to a point where it can apply them to philanthropic work...
Cambridge Police Department (CPD) Sergeant Lester J. Sullivan said one of the robbers barked "give me all your money" as he stuck a small black handgun through the window. The victims complied, handing over pagers, keys and wallets containing credit cards and $150 in cash...
...kingdom at the start of World War II. He has cast it with young actors, many of whom have done little Shakespeare and less musical theater. So the Clueless Alicia Silverstone is the princess; Scream's Matthew Lillard and Face/Off's Alessandro Nivola join Branagh and the gifted Adrian Lester to complete a quartet of severely dimpled swains. The assumption--here as in Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You--is that singing and dancing are not so much skills as attitudes. Anyone can do it. Just open your mouth, and pick up your feet. Well...
Most of the people couldn't be prettier. The ladies' dresses are glamorously revealing (this is one of the most bosom-obsessed movies since Russ Meyer retired). There's a nice use of the Anglo-African actors Lester and Carmen Ejogo; Branagh pairs them off with white co-stars. And in the director's familiar long takes, some of the dance numbers do work up a pleasing tension...
...Beatles' 1965 film "Help!" director Richard Lester sent the Liverpool boys down a ski slope with no more instruction than a push and a smiling, bald nod. They were lucky, after all, as all they had to do was ski a bit, fall over and writhe on the ground in rhythm to "Ticket to Ride...