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...otherwise-forgotten journeymen who were in no recognized sense auteurs; they were no-teurs. That's been a tonic corrective to the received wisdom about films: that, yes, there are still pearls worth diving for; you just have to look in ranker, more roiled waters. Hence, Vanishing Point's Richard Sarafian, and John Hough of Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, and a true indie daredevil, H.B. Halicki, who died during a stunt scene while shooting the sequel to Gone in 60 Seconds...
...former director general of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, but old soldiers in Pakistan never really retire, short of the funeral shroud. He is an éminence grise to be watched. Since its founding, Pakistan has fundamentally been a military state. For U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher to see Pakistan as a potentially "moderate, stable, democratic Muslim nation" shows considerable optimism...
...have a different attitude toward using TV to raise money. In Britain, Red Nose Day, an evening of comic TV that is also a fund raiser, is a ratings winner that garnered $128 million in 2005. Dreamed up by screenwriter (Four Weddings and a Funeral) and director (Love Actually) Richard Curtis in 1988, it was an idea Fuller had been trying, not very successfully, to sell to network heads here. "Then I thought, actually, I control the biggest show in America," he says. "And we have 30 million-- plus people watching every week. Maybe I could just hand over Idol...
...difference between you and me," a visiting Chinese student told University of Michigan psychologist Richard Nisbett not long ago, "is that I think the world is a circle, and you think it's a line." The remark caught the professor off guard with its size. It prompted him to write a book, The Geography of Thought, about the differences--culturally encoded over a few hundred generations--between the Western and the Asian mind...
...Richard Goldstein, associate professor of medicine at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, who is part of a Cornell team investigating the cause of death, says he would not normally expect melamine to kill a pet. Research on melamine's effects on animals is very limited: only a few dated studies have been done on dogs and just one on cats, which showed limited poisonous effects and no kidney damage. And melamine has a very low level of toxicity to rodents. "It looks like it [the melamine] is causing direct cell death in the kidneys and this is not something...