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...Mexico and Senegal, among others, on board for a conference on strategies to counter the global dominance of Americana. Needless to say, Washington was not invited, although the official explanation is that the U.S. has no culture minister. But there may be a commercial motive behind Canada's noble quest: "It's driven as much by the entertainment industry in those countries as by any genuine fear of being culturally swamped," says TIME Toronto bureau chief Andrew Purvis. "It's basically protectionism." No surprise then that the major initiative discussed was a proposed international news TV network to rival...
...adult will speak to him directly of the families' history, and his knowledge of the troubled family story emerges from half-heard whispers and details gleaned from emotional outbursts. His desire to rip through the fabric of dense half-truths and "cooked up" stories becomes nothing less than a quest, a constant crusade for answers inextricably linked with his gradual maturation...
...they need. Colleges, for example, are currently granting degrees in computer sciences to barely 25% of the number of people industry wants to hire. And new skill sets are in demand because of what Hofrichter of Hay Group calls "almost another industrial revolution." He explains that companies in their quest to become lean and mean have combined old jobs and put together work teams to the point that they no longer look for narrow skills but instead for workers who can do what used to be two or three jobs...
...that, internationally, America has come to represent shopping malls, MTV, Big Macs and E.R. However, many of the social and behavioral norms associated with consumerism have not crossed the ocean back to the old world. Perhaps because of the semi-socialist basis of the French government or the eternal quest for liberty, equality and fraternity, the American cult of the consumer as we know it does not exist here. Purchasing power does not seem to wow and dazzle, nor does it engender sympathy or goodwill...
Some equally uninspiring characters aid Nikki on her quest to solve the murder, including an actress from the American Repertoire Theater, a 20 year old law student, Nikki's landlady (a former English professor denied tenure) and a Harvard University Police Department detective from the Caribbean. These companion figures are set in opposition to those who fall in the suspect category. The companions take a less-than-active role in providing Nikki with different types of sage advice, while the suspects do their very best to impede her investigation. The result is nothing less than formulaic. Scenes in which Professor...