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...first film in which she appeared was the 1941 Major Barbara; she played a winsome Salvation Army lass under the tutelage of Hiller, the fresh-faced rage of the day. Kerr's radiance was both more demure and more alluring; and when pregnancy forced Hiller to drop out of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's war epic The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Powell cast Kerr as the three women who, over a 40-year span, weave a romantic spell over the lead character. And over the co-director: Powell fell in love with her. During the shoot...
...transformation, Danone began selling off businesses like Kronenbourg beer and by 2003 had narrowed its activities to fresh dairy products, bottled water--and cookies. "In a long history of disposals, this we suspect was the final major divestment that leaves Danone fully focused on the growing health-oriented markets," says Charlie Mills, an analyst at Credit Suisse, of the July sale of the cookie business, which included household names like LU and Prince and made up 15.6% of the company's total sales...
...keep friends close and enemies closer was wise for many reasons, including this one: if you don't, your enemies will draw close to each other. At the moment, Russia is building a $1billion nuclear reactor in Iran; Ahmadinejad is basking in his first state visit from a major world leader...
...hear that a developer has come in and proposed a major house on this property is like hearing of an extraterrestrial landing, almost, into the neighborhood,” Susan J. Pharr, a neighborhood resident and the Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, said in protest to the construction at a Monday’s City Council meeting...
...tried to do is make it look how it looked before.” The design also acknowledges students’ desire for a social gathering place: the entry area will be transformed into a lounge with carpeting and furniture. The construction project is the second phase of a major renovation of the MAC, the University’s main recreational facility built in 1930. The first phase, in 2004, addressed primarily “programmatic” issues, Gibson said. In that renovation, the MAC added a glassed-in balcony, a spinning room, and doubled the size...