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...suspect the people who, years ago, were working on quantum mechanics never had in mind that they would provide the BlackBerry, the cell phone, my iPod or what have you," said Norman Augustine, a former president and CEO of security firm Lockheed Martin, who attended Monday's meeting in Princeton. But today, he says, that research has paved the way for work in manufacturing, maintenance, marketing and sales - a clear sign that the benefits of basic science extend beyond the lab. "This is about jobs, and it's about jobs for everyone," Augustine said...
...first wacko, the second gritty, the third sumptuously romantic, and all marvelously dense with imagery. So the big surprise in The Wrestler is that it's visually inert. Aronofsky's main camera habit is to follow Randy, just his imposing back, as he trudges through corridors toward another fight. (Martin Scorsese virtually patented that shot in Raging Bull and Goodfellas.) The trope does pay off later in the film, when the camera trails the briefly retired Randy down the stairs to his new job, behind a deli counter. But Aronofsky's main contribution was to lion-tame a jolting performance...
...above dialogue sums up the first meeting between sharecropper-turned-blues legend Muddy Waters and Leonard Chess, Chicago club owner and soon-to-be head of Chess Record Label. Chess and Waters are the subjects of “Cadillac Records” from writer/director Darnell Martin. Along with a stellar cast and soundtrack, the film tells the semi-true story of Chess’s famed Chicago record label and the struggle of introducing the music of its black artists to the mainstream. Leonard Chess, played by Adrien Brody, is the not-so-typical lower-middle class white...
...like Martin, Lamont will also serve on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Committee on Appointments and Promotions...
...Unlike Martin, Lamont will not simultaneously chair the Standing Committee on Women. Government professor Susan J. Pharr and organismic and evolutionary biology professor Elena M. Kramer will continue to chair the committee, Lamont said...