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...acceptance speech, he scolded the President for invading Iraq. So Cannes was primed for his latest movie Molotov cocktail. Its first screening, on a Monday at 8 a.m., got total team news coverage; a dozen or so radio and TV crews circled the U.S. critics to get their early reaction as Miramax Films co-chairman Harvey Weinstein, whose Disney bosses had forbidden him to release the film, paced nearby and chortled, "They say I've lost my edge? Have I lost my edge?" He had not. He spent the rest of the week negotiating with a flock of U.S. distributors...
Ironically, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi may have done more to rally the G.O.P. troops that day than Bush. In a press conference after the President's visit, she accused him of "incompetence" and declared that "the emperor has no clothes." Reaction was predictably swift and harsh. "Nancy Pelosi should apologize for her irresponsible, dangerous rhetoric," said House majority leader Tom DeLay. When times get tough for the G.O.P., the Democrats can always help...
...expectation would be that it’s going to be a very popular agreement,” HUCTW Director Bill Jaeger said. “We started yesterday having some meetings, and the reaction has been wildly positive so far. We’ve been keeping in close touch with our members, and I think people knew that it was a difficult negotiation...
...Reaction among the winners was uniformly positive. “I was delighted,” said Harrington, professor of the popular class History of Science 175, “Madness and Medicine” and former co-director of the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative. “I really enjoy engaging with undergraduates.” Harrington said she was particularly gratified that the title lends official institutional recognition to work with undergraduates, sending to faculty members a message of “confidence about what the institution values.” Kirshner has long been...
...adventures of an idea should be entertaining. The Wisdom of Crowds is a circus of oddments and behavioral studies--for example, of big-city pedestrian flow (an unconscious art form) and highway traffic snarls (caused by hiccups of human reaction time--"a single driver who's too ready to hit the brakes can slow down an entire highway"). Surowiecki describes a 1958 experiment in which a group of law students from New Haven, Conn., were asked to consider this scenario: You have to meet someone in New York City but don't know where to meet him or when...