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...feet high, and you paid your buck and a half to go see them. But that's gone. People know everything about everybody now. PITT: Jaws came along and proved you could make huge money with blockbusters, and it set this thing in motion that has lowered the subject matter. People like George have been getting good stuff out there, but it's an industry that pushes people out on the big stage too fast, before they're ready, and it eats them up as well. It's a different kind of arena now. BARKIN: Think about...
...World Bank boss, Zoellick will have a chance to mix with every finance and foreign minister in the world, including America's own. And then there is the matter of running the World Bank. Even before Wolfowitz , embroiled in a scandal over his role in finding a new job for a World Bank employee with whom he had a close relationship, lost the confidence of the Bank's vast bureaucracy, the Bank was struggling to both justify the need for a multinational lending institution sponsoring big public projects in an era in dotted with increasingly effective non-governmental organizations...
...both sides, says Ashley J. Tellis of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - who has played a key behind-the-scenes role in the talks - that the deal will come through. Speaking on the sidelines of a lecture in New Delhi recently, he said it was not a matter of "if" but "when...
...Problem with France is the French,' but that's a lie"); and 5) squeezed some sour grapes by saying, "If I did get the Palme d'Or I was gonna give it to Bernardo Bertolucci, who's been ill. But I didn't, so it doesn't matter." One or two jury members wince at the oafish display, as if to ask, Is it too late to retract the prize...
...negotiators, Ali Larijani, also seemed to hedge carefully when asked if the talks would focus exclusively on Iraq, as called for by the U.S., or whether they might also include other points of contention. "Talking with the U.S. over issues related to Iran is not an impossible matter," Iran's state news agency, IRNA, quoted him as saying. "However, this depends on the subject matter...