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...William Hundert (Kevin Kline) teaches classics at snooty St. Benedict's. He gets his toga into a twist over a brat named Sedgewick Bell (Emile Hirsch), a cheeky cheat in whom he somewhat mysteriously detects good stuff. The conventions of the genre usually dictate that the boy will ultimately reform. The considerable originality of The Emperor's Club (directed by Michael Hoffman) lies in the fact that the kid gets worse, not better, going on to sleazy dotcom millions and, of course, politics. This leaves the prissily played Hundert sadder and wiser. But it still may leave viewers emotionally disconnected...
When Kennedy was shepherding the labor-reform act of 1959 through the Senate, he would brief me outside the chamber, lounging on that sore tailbone of his, making marvelously irreverent cracks about recalcitrant Senate colleagues and the pretty secretaries who walked by. During the 1960 campaign, I watched him up close: at Wisconsin factory gates at 5 a.m., in the New Hampshire snow, tramping through the hamlets of West Virginia. His days ran 20 hours. I felt more debilitated than he looked. True, J.F.K. didn't indulge in displays of physical prowess (no push-ups or arm wrestling). He just...
Kidwai says she has no plans to leave India. "In the U.S., I may have brokered bigger deals, but here, it's much more at the cutting edge of reform, the ability to influence, to shape." --By Michele Orecklin. Reported by Meenakshi Ganguly/New Delhi
...country's most important, since it makes him the military commander in chief. His predecessor, Deng Xiaoping, retained the Military Commission chairmanship for three years after relinquishing his other titles in 1987. Deng, however, hung on because he feared his leftist enemies would divert the country from economic reform. Jiang has no progressive agenda to defend, and some observers say he is sowing the seeds of political strife by clinging to power. "He's lost the chance to do something new and positive," complains one influential Party member...
...Within this climate, a small but increasingly vocal group of observers insists that the real solution to the nation's ills is not bad debt disposal or any of the other macho macroeconomic fixes currently capturing all the attention, but structural reform designed to remove governmental barriers to free-market competition at the domestic corporate level. "You can clean up the banks' balance sheets all you want," says James Kondo, a consultant at McKinsey & Co. who helped produce a recent study that remains one of the most comprehensive looks yet at Japan's productivity gap. "But until you change...