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...Schoonmaker alluded to her respect for Scorsese throughout the press conference, and she repeatedly made it clear that credit for the shots themselves goes...
...appearances are deceiving. This onetime deputy governor of an Iraqi province and two-time author isn't garbed as a City banker in order to project upper-class Britishness, but, he says, "to show respect" to Afghans. In Stewart's latest incarnation, as President Hamid Karzai's appointed reviver of traditional Afghan architecture and crafts, earning the respect of the locals is crucial-especially because the work must take place in a war-ravaged country with no real peace on the horizon. How can preservation be achieved amid so much destruction...
...down to his job (which involves, among other things, raising $45 million to endow his ngo for preserving Afghanistan's heritage, the Turquoise Mountain Foundation). But when it comes to describing the project that so impassions him, he's all statesman: "This is a development project that says 'we respect your traditional culture, and we are going to put our resources and our technology and our knowledge toward supporting it,' as opposed to a development project which says 'we don't like your traditional culture and we want to change it.' That's not the way you are going...
...United States military from Gildroy and Stokes. She was with them during the period of uncertainty before recall announcements, and was torn to find out they’d been selected. “My heart just sank,” said Kovitz. “You have respect for their duty to serve their nation, but you think ‘Am I going to see this person again?’ It’s really shocking...
Imus was, somehow, the highbrow incarnation of what has come to be known as the “shock jock,” the radio host whose flimsy moral fiber and gleeful coprolalia earn him the respect and adulation of the common folk. It took a handful of references to Hillary Clinton as “Satan” and “that buck-toothed witch” (epithets people across the country invoke daily for no reward at all) to win him 1.6 million listeners a week and the sponsorship from Bigelow...