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Over the last few months, this country has needed leadership in many realms, and luckily we have gotten that in the political realm. But economically we are hurting, and there’s nobody leading us to a cure. In fact, over the summer, it seemed like the former treasury secretary, Robert E. Rubin ’60, spoke with Congress more times than you did, Mr. Secretary...
...this idea among people who make great movies that these masterpieces can somehow be improved. Like all movies, these great ones were made under undue amounts of stress, there were heartbreaking compromises between director and studio, the script was tragically trimmed to get the running time within the realm of marketability. (When Titanic opened in December of 1997, the running time was listed as 2:78 instead of 3:18. People, apparently, were fooled.) Filmmakers ruefully remember the havoc of making the great movie, how if only they had a little more time or a little more money, they could...
...film is both new and deja-voyeur. It picks up where such landmark films as Last Tango in Paris, The Devils, In the Realm of the Senses, The Last Woman and other sizzling studies of adult sexuality seemed to be leading movies in the '70s. That's not where they went. Hollywood went for the teen-boy market, while European films retreated into a sort of catatonic minimalism. Now--or, rather, finally--directors are again dramatizing, how human beings reveal their power, vulnerability, joy and desperation in their most intimate moments...
...deal does set up an oversight committee of three tech experts chosen jointly by Microsoft and Justice. But the trio is pretty toothless: it can't even collect evidence for potential future court cases. University of Chicago law professor Randall Picker, who describes the deal as "within the realm of reasonableness," also predicts it will trigger a whole new set of lawsuits. "I fear Microsoft's corporate culture hasn't changed," says Ohio's Montgomery, "but I'm willing to give it a chance...
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