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...Phil Sharp--a Democratic House member from Indiana for 20 years, later the director of Harvard's Institute of Politics and currently a professor at the Kennedy School--argues that Congress may be less important today than it once was. "Someone who wants to make a difference might have a greater impact from a prominent position in the State House than as a first-term Congressman," Sharp claims...
...least Moore shows the ubiquity of job loss and corporate apathy--in every city Moore's book tour leads him to, he has no trouble unearthing some corporate atrocity that the rest of us took for granted. The movie climaxes in a rare interview between Moore and Nike CEO Phil Knight, in which Knight admits that he thinks it's okay for fourteen-year-old Indonesian girls to make his shoes. But Moore mishandles even this scene, relentlessly fishing for some explosive soundbite instead of trying to debate Knight...
Upon reaching Portland, Ore., Moore is at his best as he interviews Nike CEO Phil Knight, the only CEO who agreed to talk with Moore on camera. Moore asks Knight why Nike refuses to let Americans manufacture Nike shoes. (At the IOP, Moore claimed Nike tried to pressure him into editing out much of this interview.) Nike, like the other companies Moore features reaped substantial profits during the documentary's filming...
Still, Imbruglia will probably never be mistaken for a singer-songwriter. Although she's credited with co-writing most of Left's songs, the album was born with a battery of producers in attendance, including Nigel Godrich of Radiohead, and former Cure bassist Phil Thornalley. Nor will Imbruglia score points for originality. Most of the album's songs sound as if they had been ripped right out of Morissette's songbook. A few do hit the pop bull's-eye. Intuition and Torn start off sweetly and gather into cloudbursts of righteous rage, touching on jealousy, infatuation...
...Bears hung in the game, narrowing the gap to three on two different occasions. Senior longstick Phil Chesler intercepted a pass at midfield and bounced a shot past Cynar. After Crofton scored his third goal of the game, Brown star Jed Dewick scored man-up to make the tally...