Word: nicked
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...Philippines knows a person who has made the sacrifice or is making it. Pacquiao gives that multitude a champion's face of selflessness: the winner who takes all and gives to all. "To live in the Philippines is to live in a world of uncertainty and hardship," says Nick Giongco, who covers Pacquiao for the daily Manila Bulletin. "Filipinos are dreamers. They like fantasy. And what is more of a fantasy than Manny Pacquiao?" (Read a 2004 story about Pacquiao...
...mother to the boat after being expelled from school, in the hopes that he may spend more time with his godfather, Quentin (Nighy), Radio Rock’s nutty station manager. The ship’s eclectic personalities—including The Count (Hoffman) and Dr. Dave (Nick Frost)—have popular consensus on their side, but the boat is under legislative siege from the government. Their fiercest opponent is Minister Alistair Dormandy (Branagh), who is committed to shutting down “the drug takers and the lawbreakers and the bottom-bashing fornicators of this recently great...
...slightly spaced-out, British gentleman. Unquestionably, though, the funniest performance comes from Kenneth Branagh as a viciously polite British official intent on destroying Radio Rock. His outraged caricature is particularly evident during a scene in which he casually threatens to outlaw one of his subordinate’s haircuts. Nick Frost’s (“Shaun of the Dead”) portly and shameless ladies man, Dr. Dave, consistently cracks jokes and snarky comments, despite being of little importance to the film’s plot. Another character named Thick Kevin (Tom Brooke) justifies his namesake during...
...Nick Littlefield, a former staff director and chief counsel for Kennedy on the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, described Kennedy as being “obsessed with school reform?...
...having become the manufacturing workshop of the world. It isn't just about cheap labor; it's about smart labor. "Whether it's line workers or engineers, we're finding the candlepower of our employees here as good as or better than anywhere in the world," says Nick Reilly, a top executive at General Motors in Shanghai. "It all starts with the emphasis families put on the importance of education. That puts pressure on the government to deliver a decent system." (See pictures of the best-selling cars in China...