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...that are surfacing now can do so only because some potent actor like Pitt invests his cachet in producing an epic-size movie on an indie-film budget ($30 million or so for Jesse James). Or because two boutique studios chip in for a modern western revenge film, as Paramount Vantage and Miramax did for Joel and Ethan Coen's smart, violent, defiantly quirky No Country for Old Men, coming in November. Or when a director with a hit movie on his résumé charms financiers outside the studio. That's how James Mangold, fresh from Walk the Line...
...Faust, who took office on July 1, also outlined a theme that could figure as a defining mark of her presidency—“to work to become a university known more for bridges and less for walls.†“One of my paramount hopes for the coming years,†she wrote, “is that, more and more, when all of us at Harvard think and talk about our endeavors, we will be describing not just an accumulation of discrete individual pursuits, but the efforts of people in different parts...
...have been sniffing around Moscow recently, trying to figure out how and when to get involved in an industry with a potentially massive upside. Twentieth Century Fox, which purchased the international rights to the ethereal Russian vampire movies Night Watch and Day Watch, opened offices in Moscow last year. Paramount and Disney are kicking the tires. And Sony, through its Columbia Tristar division, joined with several American investors last year to form Monumental Pictures, which is producing Russian-language movies for the domestic market. Monumental's general director, Paul Heth, an American, built the first Western-style cinemas in Russia...
...Public support is paramount for protest leaders who are now on the run. "The wave of sympathy is in our favor," says one activist who has so far escaped the police dragnet. "You knock on a door late at night and whisper, 'Let me in, brother.' People willingly help us, even though they're well aware of the dire consequences." Still, the regime is doing its best to prevent further unrest and capture any stray dissidents. Trucks full of hired thugs patrol major street corners in Rangoon. The U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in Burma, Paulo Sérgio...
...determined or bloodthirsty the attackers were: the murderous ambition behind them is usually the same. If the quantities and blasting capacities of materials collected in the German plot were far larger than the London bombers relied on, that's because the attack modes and venues were different. "Success is paramount for terrorists, so you're not going to risk getting caught by collecting large stores of materials if you'll be detonating a smaller bomb in a tight and enclosed environment like a train," the security official notes. "If you're using remote detonation against open-air targets, success...