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...research sub, has become a model for deep-sea exploration. Owned by the Navy and operated out of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, Alvin has made more than 4,120 dives to date. Among the most celebrated: recovering a lost hydrogen bomb in the 1960s and leading explorer Robert Ballard to the remains of the Titanic in nearly 13,000 ft. of water, off Newfoundland, in 1986. Froehlich...
...been getting good stuff out there, but it's an industry that pushes people out on the big stage too fast, before they're ready, and it eats them up as well. It's a different kind of arena now. BARKIN: Think about it. Do we know anything about Robert Redford's children? Does he even have any? DAMON: I worked with him, and I don't know. PITT: I have four, if you haven't heard...
...afoul of the Bank's conflict-of-interest rules. Zoellick may be seen by some as too closely identified with the Bush Administration, having served in it from its start through summer of 2006. Less controversial alternatives were available, such as Commerce Secretary Carlos Guiterrez and Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt, who would probably have been acceptable to most of the European and Asian countries who get an informal chop on the choice. But Zoellick was more qualified than either...
...likely to use it to drive up U.S. casualties in the months ahead. "We are dealing with a smart, agile, thinking enemy, and I think we should be prepared for them to make a very strong effort to increase the level of violence in July and August," Defense Secretary Robert Gates said last week. "My hope is that anticipating it will allow us to thwart it." Gates wouldn't be the first Defense Secretary to have his hopes dashed in Iraq...
...style that predominates in current high-art festival films (ones, by the way, that rarely get much exposure in U.S. movie houses) is minimalist. Based on the works of early masters like Carl-Theodor Dreyer and Robert Bresson, it follows certain rules, as restrictive as any Mennonite edicts: pare movie technique down to its essentials; show characters behaving, however mutely, rather than acting; make the viewer work for their epiphanies. This style has been responsible for many small, lugubrious films and -from directors who know how to make more or less -a few masterpieces. Silent Light is one of them...