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...Clooney also preempts situations that might earn him ridicule later. So he has either turned down every gift bag he's been offered or has put them up on eBay for charity. "I've been smart about that. Rich famous people getting free s___ looks bad. You look greedy. And I don't need a cell phone with sparkles on it," he says. He sends handwritten apology letters to the directors whose scenes he ripped off in the movies he directed-Mike Nichols, Sidney Lumet, Sydney Pollack. He drives an electric car and a Lexus hybrid...
...Eagles’ wings clipped and their fervent traveling support silenced, the Crimson went on to dominant proceedings in the singles. No. 3 Omodele-Lucien—in his fourth dual of the day—demolished Sechrist, 6-2, 6-2, while No. 1 Kumar continued his rich vein of form against Nolan, the senior powering to a 6-3, 6-4 win. The contest was salted away by No. 5 Will Guzick, as the freshman hit a delicate lob to clinch a 6-4, 6-1 victory. “Today was awesome,” said Kumar...
...inspired bit of parody, the liberal New Statesman illustrated a special issue on the subject with a photomontage of Thatcher as Queen Victoria.) As Peregrine Worsthorne, associate editor of the conservative Sunday Telegraph, puts it, Thatcher "is as ignorantly contemptuous of the so-called values of the idle rich as of the so-called idle poor...
...enables the livestock industry to do in a fraction of the time what breeders have been doing throughout history, narrowing the gene pool to its most desirable genes. Beyond that, say cloners, future benefits include production of genetically engineered animals that could offer a variety of benefits - more nutrient-rich milk, for example, for people without adequate access to food...
...films can be described as “environment documentaries,” which capture a character, his surroundings, and the tension that exists between the two. “En la ciudad de Sylvia,” the first movie presented, is composed of the rich sights and sounds of the title character’s city. Guerín filmed the city’s inhabitants, as opposed to filling it with hundreds of “extras.” He noted that maybe only a quarter of the film was the result of his intervention...