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...that it will take them as members. What began as a grand project to reunite the sundered halves of Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 is ending as a cold calculation of structural funds and subsidy levels. What used to be about blood and passion - binding wounds, seizing the historical moment, forging a common future - is now about getting paid and looking out for No. 1. Make a stirring speech about unifying the Continent for the first time since Charlemagne and you'll get hooted out of the public square; emphasize how membership can cut tariffs...
...Carr began to fuse his interests in technology with his passion for human rights, founding a company called Africa Online which tried to bring the Internet to developing countries, later including Mexico and China...
...little passion these days is the Greeks,” he says, pointing to his recently acquired collection of Greek art and sculpture in his Cambridge apartment...
...play in his past films’ quieter scenes. Here, he plays Barry Egan, a blue-suited salesperson with a warehouse office, seven emasculating sisters and a problem with emotional stability. Sandler’s performance is finely modulated, its simmering tenor punctuated by hilarious bursts of rage and passion. It’s a two-gear acting style that aligns marvelously with Anderson’s measured sense of storytelling...
...would be hard to find a more helpful staff than Formaggio’s; their passion for cheese borders on overzealousness. Robert J. Aguilera stumbled into the business by chance when his former boss asked him to take over the cheese department at the now defunct Seasonal Table. After a five-month unpaid internship with guru Jesse Shwartzburg, Aguliera’s childhood hatred of dairy changed to obsession. “Now,” he says, “I’m willing to eat anything I can get my hands...