Word: roberts
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...That's just the job description that the Afghan terrorist leader Aziz (Robert Davi) needs filled. "It is getting harder and harder to find good suicide bombers," he laments. "All the good ones are gone." The group could use a good recruitment video - but who would direct it? "We need someone who really, really hates America." Cut to Malone (Kevin Farley, brother of the late Chris), who's shooting a health-care documentary - obviously Moore's Sicko - in Cuba. He's thrilled to be in an island paradise. The locals, not so much: they fight to get on the boat...
Toyota Motor Co., despite its financing deals and a heavy advertising schedule, reported that sales of its SUVs dropped 32% and sales of its pickup trucks fell 42%. Even sales of the ubiquitous Toyota Camry took a hit. "Right now the market is quite challenged," says Robert Carter, Toyota's vice president of sales, noting that even lower gasoline prices have failed to excite consumers...
...about what he can accomplish.” Though the stakes may have risen for Biega, one of Harvard’s brightest rising stars will still return to the strong work ethic and sense of focus that carried him so far last year. —Staff writer Robert T. Hamlin can be reached at rhamlin@fas.harvard.edu...
...predict the votes of the undecided? It's actually not that hard. Our brains generate automatic responses to most stimuli. As the psychologist Robert Zajonc wrote compellingly in 1980, "We do not just a see 'a house.' We see a 'handsome' house, an 'ugly' house, or a 'pretentious' house ... We sometimes delude ourselves that we proceed in a rational manner and weigh all the pros and cons of the various alternatives. But this is probably seldom the actual case. Quite often 'I decided in favor of X' is no more than 'I like X.'" Most of us pick what...
...some reason in Democratic elections. A stop there, and a visit by us coordinated with trying to get folks out to vote early, has a way of not just changing the percentage within an area but changing the importance of that area as it relates to Democratic voters," says Robert Gibbs, Obama's communications director. "In other words, if you've got an area where Democrats normally comprise 20% of the vote, and you normally lose it 55-45, and you go there, it raises the importance of the area with swing voters and changes the underlying numbers as well...