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...Should my tax dollars be spent on a multimillionaire's travel? Absolutely not," says Daniel Borochoff, president of charity watchdog American Institute of Philanthropy. "Wink-wink, nudge-nudge deals like this ruin the integrity of the whole sector...
...panicked runs, and an enraged middle class took to the streets. The country went through five Presidents in just two weeks. Wall Street feared that the crisis, one of the worst in South America's history, would spread next door to giant Brazil--where the élite predicted financial ruin if Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, head of the left-wing Workers' Party, was elected President that year--and even to stable Chile, where executives groused over glasses of Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon that the U.S. Congress might block Santiago's free-trade pact with Washington...
...Louis’ emotions. Highmore speaks with the eerie directness and innocence of a five-year-old, which stresses his captivation with the world around him. Meyers’ brevity and brooding portrayal underscores his yearning for Layla. Besides Sheridan’s sappy direction, several improbable details ruin the movie. Over the course of time, Louis becomes a suit-wearing exec and starts to date a girl. But then suddenly, without explanation, he moves back to New York, gets his band together, and sets out to find Layla. Unbelievably, Rush absorbs music by osmosis. There isn?...
...Album” has 10 of them. The Hives simply don’t use that extra time well; almost every track overstays its welcome. “Well All Right!” and “You Dress Up for Armageddon” contain awkward bridges that ruin potentially decent rockers. The instrumental “A Stroll Through Hive Manor Corridors” is stuffed right in the middle of the album, seemingly for no other purpose than to bore the listener for two and a half minutes. The Hives have always focused on music rather than...
...playing in New Haven, where it has outscored opponents by a combined tally of 141-36 in four games this season, and it currently leads the Ancient Eight in scoring offense and all of I-AA in scoring defense. And again, Harvard has the opportunity to play spoiler and ruin its archrival’s perfect season...