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...good old American-Gothic kind of families, a new child was welcomed into the family with a quilt. Mom needlepointed and pillows became lively decorations when strewn about the house. A hundred years later, those same familial objects that used to adorn a home are now displayed in a museum. But are quilts, dolls, toy chests and family portraits art? Does a weathervane belong in a museum...
...first it felt good, this tanking-economy thing. My friends from Stanford no longer had options to brag about, my mom stopped rubbing my face in her precious Cisco stock, and I was hearing a lot less from James Cramer. But then I realized it might affect me: no more free deliveries of items ordered on the Web, the end of the tasting menu, less airtime for Maria Bartiromo--even an e-mail about getting rid of the free Snapple from our office refrigerators, though I may have hastened that by hoarding the remaining cases under my desk late...
...movie takes no ethical position on the business and pleasure of dope, but it gets plenty upset about the perfidy of women. Except for his first doomed love, Barbara (Franka Potente from Run Lola Run), every female in George's life is a harpy with a vengeance. His meanspirited mom (played by a miscast Rachel Griffiths, who is five years younger than Depp) turns him in to the police. His shrill, selfish wife Mirtha (Penelope Cruz, who for once manages to be unlikable) tells the cops he's holding. Even his daughter Kristina (Emma Roberts), the only person he cares...
With this dear-daddy subplot, the film finally tries to persuade you that George is a man worth feeling sorry for. O.K., so his father loved him, his mom didn't. He loved his kid, she deserted him. What's this got to do with the price of coke? In truth, all George deserves is the grudging respect one might give to any captain of industry who, with guts and a shrewd sense of an expanding market, made a bundle selling people something they didn't need. That's not quite enough for a wannabe-great movie...
...after college; a growing number are folks like me who pursued another career before deciding to become a doctor. My classmates are as old as 46 and include a former actress, a bond trader, an engineer, a lawyer, the manager of an auto-parts store, a single mom and a tax expert for the U.S. Treasury. Stanford's med school welcomed us because it--along with Northwestern, Yale and the University of California, San Francisco, among others--believes real-world experience helps make better doctors...