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...intricate and entertaining than recent experience has taught us to expect from big studio movies. It has a touch of romance, a touch of suspense and a touch of wildness as it recounts the misadventures of on Huck Cheever a professional poker player whose roiling, yet buttoned-down, emotions prevent him from being the big winner his talents entitle...
...nothing but a meaningless platitude, an intellectual dilettante’s bon mot. The weight of population didn’t enable Russia to dominate Europe—instead the Tsar’s kingdom was long dominated by puny Sweden—and didn’t prevent Britain from defeating China or conquering India...
...people power revolution, however. The coalition of 11 political parties that organized the event agreed on so little that they invited no politicians to address the rally lest any one speaker offend the others. But even the anodyne lineup of writers and pop stars wasn't enough to prevent controversy. Several crowd members shouted down performers because they thought playing music offensive to the memory of the soldiers killed in Lebanon...
...generated 81% of its sales outside Germany. "He turned Siemens into a proper company," says Michael Hagmann, a London-based analyst with investment bank UBS Ltd. "If you're a purist, you could say he could have done more. But there were a lot of people trying to prevent change...
...terrible tragedy in Virginia. But most types of mental illness do not have a component of psychosis. In fact, many people with psychosis are rehabilitated with medication, counseling and monitoring and never turn violent. Let's use the term mental illness judiciously so that its stigma does not prevent people from seeking help and early intervention. If we don't, paradoxically, that could cause more patients to slip through the cracks...