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...another bloodless young achiever coming down from the top floor to fix the ailing machine-tool company. They listen to his polished pitch in the employee cafeteria, and he wins some converts. But after he is finished, a few old-timers exchange knowing glances and mutter to one another about how young this hotshot is. Somebody makes a cynical and unkind remark about affirmative action. Deep down, they think he'd rather hit the executive gym for a cardio workout during lunch hour than share a cheesesteak and beer with the hourly workforce. And they ask one another...
...Chahine's derision toward fundamentalists goes back at least to Cairo Station, where he portrays them as comic relief: when they see dancers gyrating to rock n roll, the clerics mutter, "God protect us!" and "All these new-fangled ideas lead to Hell!" But Chahine was also a nationalist. His 1963 bio-pic Saladin, about the 12th-century sultan of Egypt and Syria, found a clear connection between Saladin's uniting of North African and Mideast Arabs against the Christian Crusaders and Nasser's formation of the Egypt-Syria United Arab Republic to fight Israel. (Saladin was played by Ahmed...
...their part, TNK-BP's British executives defend the company's performance and mutter darkly that their Russian partners are maneuvering to take control of the venture. This dispute isn't TNK-BP's only headache, either. In recent months, Russian security services have raided the firm's premises as part of an industrial espionage probe, detaining a low-level employee (though TNK-BP itself was not involved in the investigation); officers at Russia's Interior Ministry have questioned Dudley as a witness in connection with another probe into tax evasion at a firm later absorbed into...
...heartwarming, we mutter to ourselves. But there's something better than that about this kid and Ellen Page's performance in the role. There's something unself-consciously brave about the way she pushes her burgeoning belly through the school cafeteria, something very nice about the way her father (J.K. Simmons) and step-mother (Allison Janney) support her without losing their tartness (or their reality) in the process, something authentically sweet about the way her relationship with Paulie keeps believably developing. The screenwriter, Diablo Cody, knows the limits of this story and, better still, the limits of our patience...
...alternative to commercially sponsored rankings. Yale University and Princeton University have both donated $30,000 to the project, according to Lloyd Thacker, the groups’s executive director. Additionally, Harvard faculty members have contributed to the group’s efforts. “While many informed persons mutter about the inequities and wrong-headedness of the current college admissions procedure, almost no one has taken the crucial step from complaint to constructive action,” wrote education professor Howard E. Gardner ’65 in an endorsement posted on the group’s Web site...