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...Proposal also hit it big by mixing a cocktail of familiar ingredients from earlier Bullock hits. In While You Were Sleeping she had to pretend she was in love with a handsome guy (Peter Gallagher) while his family pushed them together. In Two Weeks Notice she was the underling who couldn't stand her boss, then fell in love with him; here she's the boss and generic hunk Ryan Reynolds is the aggrieved assistant. And in her one solo hit, Miss Congeniality, she was a gruff FBI agent who went undercover as a perky contestant in a beauty pageant...
...Conservative grandees submitting bills for the upkeep of mansions have reinforced the party's unfortunate image of entitlement and wealth, but the vision of Labour MPs subsidizing their lifestyles is more damaging still. New Labour defined itself as a party that encouraged wealth creation, that in the words of Peter Mandelson, Business Secretary and Brown's de facto deputy, was "intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich." But it still prioritized the needs of ordinary Britons. "When you see politicians charging for small things, like a bathroom plug, you know they don't care about the common people," says Mehta...
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...Peter L. Bernstein was 70 and had led a full life. An intelligence officer during World War II, he later taught economics, ran an investment firm and edited the wonky but influential Journal of Portfolio Management as a flood of new academic research transformed investing in the 1970s...
...Peter F. Zhu contributed to the reporting of this story...