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...only Hollywood can make them. The "would like to be": the message films Milk and The Reader, which hammer home Hollywood's liberal views on gays and its unslakable fascination with the Holocaust. And the "was": Slumdog. With its skimpy budget ($14 million) and mongrel pedigree, it might seem like the odd dog out; but the movie is really classic Hollywood - not just in its inspirational story of a poor kid pursuing an impossible dream, but in its goal of keeping a mass audience entertained...
...events or activities, those who used SenseCam, which has a wide-angle lens and takes impromptu rather than staged pictures, found their recall to be greatly enhanced. "This isn't rocket science and the device is quite simple but there's something about its spontaneous, wide-angle photographs that seem to mimic the brain's own episodic memory," says Emma Berry, a neuropsychologist working on the project. In the past few years, several studies conducted at the hospital have shown that, after reviewing the photographs for an hour every other day for two weeks, dementia patients are able to recall...
...didn’t come out with enough intensity or energy,” said Markley, who finished with 16 points and eight rebounds. “I don’t think we wanted it, or we didn’t seem like we wanted...
...timing of this announcement may seem unwise in the midst of the current recession: Keynesian economics holds that the government should counter recessions with more, not less, spending. Given the sizeable federal spending that the administration has already approved, however, this announcement serves as a way to reassure the country that, despite the recession, the administration still has a long-term economic plan and is still committed to responsible fiscal policy...
...cuts have been challenged by the custodial workers’ union, SEIU 615. However, Harvard notified the organization of the cuts in January, and even postponed the layoffs to allow them more time to adapt. Harvard seems to have taken reasonable steps with the union, making the group’s criticisms seem a little hollow...