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...session, she spends the mornings with her staff readying for question time, that twice-weekly exercise in which the Prime Minister fields queries, and often insults, from opposition M.P.s. A cook is brought in on question days to prepare what Thatcher calls "good nursery food" (shepherd's pie, or perhaps a stew), and the staff works until 2:30 p.m., when the Prime Minister leaves for Parliament in her bulletproof black Daimler...
...Pentagon's 2009 budget request is the highest--after accounting for inflation--since WW II. But because of U.S. economic growth, military spending as a share of the national pie is smaller than in prior conflicts. [The following descriptive text appears within a diagram...
...them, while Timbaland simultaneously dons a bulletproof vest. One could argue that the nonsensicality of these directorial decisions is in line with the nonsensicality of the song’s lyrics. These include “Can I have some of your cookies / Can I have some of your pie / May I cut the first slice / So won’t you scream?” This argument, however, doesn’t embrace the wondrous stupidity of this video. Let us not damn director Justin Francis for being wholly uncreative, or for managing to fetishize perhaps the only thing...
...moving more freely even than they can today.The most important lesson that the Balkans can learn from the EU, however, is selflessness. The EU is not just an international organization. It is a supranational organization, which requires members to sacrifice some sovereignty for a share in a bigger pie. That attitude—of deferring to a cause greater than one’s own—is the perfect antidote to a plague of nationalism. Serbs believe that Serbian nationhood took its first steps at the Battle of Kosovo Field in 1389. The ethnic Albanians who now live...
...competition from low-cost Eastern European countries. Britain will never be an inexpensive place to make movies, but Pinewood hopes to remain competitive with this one-stop-shop concept, creating economies of scale by combing popular permanent sets with Britain's experienced, respected industry workforce. "It's not a pie-in-the-sky idea," says Iain Staples, an industry analyst at Clear Capital, an equity research firm, adding that the cost savings of Eastern Europe often prove illusory, because of inexperienced crews and tough filming conditions. "It can take twice as long to make a movie there...