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...offering to take Mr. Jamous' place, to exchange my freedom...
...This is something I had discussed with Mr. Scalise, that there was going to come some point where the balance between doing something different and doing what I had done would shift a little bit,” Anderson said. “This summer, I had five or six weeks to think about what I was doing and the relative rewards…and I just came to the conclusion that the opportunity or real chance to do something else was approaching...
...Mr. Feng, meet Senator Schumer. A few days before, when I accosted Schumer outside a Senate committee room after a 20-to-1 vote for the currency bill, he argued that politicizing the issue was the only way to bring change. "I believe the reason the yuan has appreciated 8% is only because of the efforts of Senator Graham and myself," he said. "I don't believe the Chinese move out of a sense of comity and magnanimity." He's right that Paulson's attempts at gentle persuasion, including a late-July trip to Beijing, have delivered few results...
Both men are best known for what they don't do. The star's most memorable screen moments are his suggestive silences in his roles as shadowy figures in films like The Talented Mr. Ripley and The Departed. The director's signature is his spare and painstaking re-creation of historical events, as in 2002's Bloody Sunday and last year's Oscar-nominated United 93. As individuals, Damon and Greengrass never, ever overdo it. But as a team, these gurus of understated storytelling have flourished in and elevated the most bombastic of genres, the summer action-movie franchise...
Then, this week, they stormed D.C. with a teen lobbying effort that seemed like something out of Mr. Smith Goes To Washington. "We're going to give it our all," Scott Elfenbein, one of Juan's schoolmates, told reporters on Capitol Hill. "We have to show [Congress] the flaws in the system." Says Kelleen Corrigan, detention attorney for the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center (FIAC) in Miami, which is working on behalf of Juan and Alex, "Juan is lucky to have such a dedicated, extremely astute group of friends. It's been really touching to watch...