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...hair flying wildly over a white kimono—while she is performing for all of Kyoto, her facial expressions convey that she is personally dancing for the Chairman (Ken Watanabe) whom she loves. There is always the risk that Hollywood’s sound and visual effects will ruin the text’s literary merit, but the cinematic techniques of “Memoirs of a Geisha” actually enhance the tone and mood of the story. In the opening scene, in which Chiyo and her sister are ripped away from their home, the lighting is very...
...differences between the Republican and Democratic parties today, if you are not voting as a partisan, you are not voting intelligently,” he said. He later described Republicans who voted in favor of keeping Terri Schiavo alive as “crazy people that want to ruin our lives.”Turning to the 2004 presidential election, he said the Republican victory had nothing to do with moral issues, but was due instead to President Bush’s clever manipulation of the emotions of the American people after September 11, 2001. “They...
...possibility of being named a Baker Scholar. As HBS is a professional school, students should be able to use the fruits of their academic labors to succeed in the profession of their choice.Students at HBS counter that making the release of grades to employers optional will effectively ruin the environment of the school. Employers will assume that students who refuse to release their grades are in fact in the lower part of the class. That will increase competition for top spots and undermine HBS’s ability to fulfill its unique mission as a business school. In reality, students...
...have had to restrain posters from attacking one another. My very own Baby Nazi (actually a British baby nurse named Gina Ford, author of The Contented Little Baby) is so reviled by some that one Amazon.com reviewer wrote, "Should be called Have a Convenient Baby"; another, "This book will ruin your life...
...even saw significant floor time in a 79-76 stunner of Syracuse, her first collegiate game. She drained two three-pointers and finished with nine points. Her season, and her budding career, soon went sour. Against Yale, she dislocated her shoulder, the first of four such instances that would ruin her freshman and sophomore years. It was the first time she had been sidelined by even a minor injury.“Four dislocations in two years really, really changed her game,” Delaney-Smith says. “She was playing with one arm, she was playing...