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...education is Labor's agenda, Rudd is the right salesman. His first TV commercial is a highlights reel for someone who could have starred in Australia's Brainiest Kid or It's Academic: from bush school to the Australian National University ? and beyond! Learning is at the "kitchen table" of middle Australian families, to quote the vanquished Beazley; the self-employed and middle-income parents who obsess about education and private-school fees and have lately voted for Howard will take a very close look at Rudd's education policies in the coming months. Of course, if Labor does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Won't Fool the Voters of the Revolution | 1/25/2007 | See Source »

...film's backers say they deliberately aimed to make "wealth enhancement" a major element of the project. "We desired to hit the masses, and money is the number one thing on the masses' minds," says Bob Rainone, a former IBM salesman and telcom exec who now serves as Byrne's U.S. business partner. Wealth enhancement is also part of the The Secret's business plan. Among the spinoff books expected in 2007 are The Secret Workbook and a collection of The Secret Success Stories. Byrne will also begin filming a sequel to The Secret in January, for an August release...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret of Success | 12/28/2006 | See Source »

...That's hysterical. I would have sworn it was Al. On the set, while we were making the movie, we used to call it Death of a F---ing Salesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with Alan Arkin | 12/21/2006 | See Source »

...this for universal appeal: in the play the brothers are working on now, a sales clerk is trying to sell Noah a new brand of potato chips. Some sweepstakes coupons come with every purchase, and the grand prize is a yacht. Might come in quite handy, goes the salesman's pitch, they say a deluge is coming. Skeptical, Noah buys a pack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two for the Road | 12/17/2006 | See Source »

...Gardner, Smith plays a struggling salesman unable to pay the rent or support his family in San Francisco in the early eighties. After his girlfriend Linda (Thandie Newton) walks out, Gardner takes an unpaid internship at stock brokerage firm Dean Witter in hopes of securing a job at the end of six months...

Author: By Claire J Saffitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MOVIE REVIEW: The Pursuit of Happyness | 12/14/2006 | See Source »

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