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...feature-length film, and it shows. The movie is aesthetically thoughtful, but it lacks thematic depth. Although Adams and McDormand make a delightful pair, they can’t rescue the movie from the superficiality of its screenplay. The characters are too flat to elevate the film to the level of profound social commentary. Instead of a substantive film, all Nalluri leaves us is a shell of what could have been a meaningful story of one woman’s ability to rise above her unfortunate circumstances...
...draw at the box office. Viewers traditionally find Statham in gritty yet humorous London crime capers like “Snatch” and “Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels.” But putting “The Bank Job” on the same level as those rowdy action-comedy hybrids would be a mistake. The film is a disappointment that fails to bring together its various crime movie elements with any cohesion or creativity. “The Bank Job” seems to have all the ingredients for an enjoyable viewing experience. Bank...
...condemnation, his general pattern of behavior is troubling. Certainly, Harvard should strive for excellence in athletic as well as academic pursuits, but the latter must always take precedence, and the team should ultimately defer to the greater interests of the University. Whether this requires keeping standards above a certain level, or scaling back on aggressive recruiting to remain beyond reproach, Amaker has a responsibility that is greater than the need...
...deputy governor at the Bank of Japan, Muto, 64, typically voted in line with his boss, Fukui, at policy meetings. Even though Japan faces "stagflation"-a slowing economy combined with higher inflation-Muto isn't expected to do anything radical. He'll probably leave interest rates at the current level of 0.5%, at least in the short term. "The BOJ has not once acted pro-actively in its history," Koll notes. "It has done too little, too late...
...this might happen," said Gorka Landaburu, editor of the journal Cambio 16 and himself a victim of a previous ETA bombing. "There had been threats, and ETA often attacks during elections." Indeed, Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba last month raised the country's security alert to its highest level, saying "We believe that ETA is going to try to kill before the elections." This afternoon he told a hastily convened press conference that ETA "will never intimidate Spain's society...