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...When he doesn't like a movie, he will often go out of his way to mention some attractive element amid the carnage, giving what amounts to a review that says, "Yes, but! Big but!" And when he decides that a movie rates a pan - a "Bah, thumbug," if you will - he tends to approach the task not with the hot rage of a jilted suitor, or the curled lip of contempt that is the occupational habit of other critics (this one included), but with the fretful brow of a knowing, caring family doctor. He diagnoses the symptoms, then calmly...
...most successful women’s basketball coach in Ivy League history, Kathy Delaney-Smith has already received her fair share of attention, and the spring of 2007 was no different. In April, the Harvard coach was named an assistant coach of the Pan American Games team, a group of young players competing in July against competition from North, Central, and South America. A cancer survivor, Delaney-Smith was also named a co-recipient of the Gilda Radner Award, an honor that goes annually to two women most dedicated to promoting cancer awareness throughout the Boston area.And this season, Delaney...
...first retail store only last November, began exploring the possibility of a nationwide chain of grocery stores-it wants to open 2,000 by next April-it quickly realized that it would need to build its own distribution network almost from scratch. "If we are putting up a pan-Indian business in terms of the front end, then we needed to put up a pan-Indian business in terms of the procurement," says Sanjeev Asthana, president of Reliance's agri-and-food supply chain. Because profit margins are thin in the grocery business, shipping delays and spoiled merchandise...
...work still to be done,” says McKay Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering David A. Edwards. “By virtue of those walls being set up, it limits a lot the ability of the faculty to help make those ideas pan out. And that is very likely part of the reason why more ideas don’t come out of the University and affect healthcare...
...Like Pan's Labyrinth, where the young girl at the center of the film dwelt simultaneously in the horrifying reality of war-ravaged Spain and in a Wonderland retreat of fauns and goblins, The Orphanage zooms along on two parallel tracks. One is realistic, prosaic; it says that Laura's grief over Simon's loss has driven her to desperation and toward suicidal madness. The other, with acknowledgments to J.M.Barrie's Peter Pan, is fantastic, or poetic: it suggests that her grief has opened her to other realities, put her in touch with souls crying from the beyond for justice...