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...like the film now? I mean, there's a lot of praise of the movie and of your performance. Do you believe what people are saying? I love the film. You're always critical of your own work, and the more time that goes by from when you did it, you start saying, "Well, now, I'd do this differently or that differently." But it all works very well together and you can't think you'd go back to change something because you're not the same person anymore and the same stuff that I see in it that...
Selling more obscure sports cleverly can work. Demand for many of the 9 million tickets that London organizers plan to sell will be fierce. For some events, though - think handball - organizers know they may have to coax fans along. But that doesn't mean it can't be done. Few Britons had ever heard of ski cross before the Vancouver Games, but the event, which pits four skiers simultaneously against one another over an undulating course, drew millions of television viewers. London organizers have been busy drawing up marketing plans to help push the lower-profile events. Vancouver may have...
...right, but selling a European-style VAT to Americans is a bit like selling snake poison and would likely mean political suicide for any of its supporters. That said, there's no hiding the fact that the ratio of public debt to GDP is expected to balloon from...
Also a factor in Monday's slide: plans announced by Prudential, a British insurer, to buy the Asian operations of AIG for an eye-popping $35 billion. Much of that would be paid in cash, Prudential said, which would mean swapping huge piles of sterling for dollars. Toss in the relentless pressure from speculators betting on a falling pound, as well as Britain's generally horrible fiscal position, and "sterling has sailed into a perfect storm of negativity," Nick Beecroft, a senior foreign exchange consultant at Saxo Bank, wrote in a research note earlier this week...
...Take it from someone who’s recently changed her House affiliation for the third time (Mather to Currier to Dudley) while spending her senior year living in the Back Bay. Upperclass houses may be the supposed bedrock of Harvard social life, but that doesn’t mean you’re obligated to love or stay in the concrete monstrosity that contains the shoebox you call “dorm...