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Norris Prevost, a senator from Dominica, a Caribbean island four times the size of Washington, D.C., told the group that globalization makes it hard for Third World countries to keep up with richer nations, so the Caribbean must specialize in order to compete...
...nonexecutive chairman--and insists that it's too early to pen his corporate obituary. "All you fellows who wrote today that I'm finished may not have it right," he told reporters. Because Hollinger stock surged on the news of his ouster, he boasted he was $50 million richer, declaring "That's a flameout I could get used...
Indeed, Cartoon Network's comedies may be richer for being poorer. Too many network comedies with vast staffs of writers hit the same note of competent lameness. With a few writers at most, Adult Swim's comedies have something that millions of dollars can't buy According to Jim: an original voice. Home Movies--a sweet, off-kilter comedy about neurotic eight-year-old film buffs, their dysfunctional families and their alcoholic soccer coach--relies heavily on improvisation to create true-to-life dialogue; executive producer Loren Bouchard recalls how voice actress Melissa Bardin Galsky came up with...
...fact that Maggie's skill with folk medicine analogizes her father's magical skills hints from the outset that she's more his daughter than she cares to acknowledge. But their journey to a guessable, fateful ending turns out to be richer, more surprising than we might imagine. This is one of those genre pieces that take more interesting chances than they want to (openly) admit. --By Richard Schickel
...Richer universities often receive greater federal aid than poorer ones, a New York Times study has found...