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Ledger was very serious about his work, trying to forge a path like that of Sean Penn or Jack Nicholson, trying to walk the line between what the studios wanted him to be (a romantic hero such as those he played in 10 Things I Hate About You and A Knight's Tale, his first two big hits) and the more renegade figures he was drawn to (Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain, the iconic Australia outlaw in Ned Kelly or the junkie in Candy). "I wanted to scrub it all away," he said of his early forays into stardom...
...Amid such a "serious credit crisis," says Buik, stock markets will only remain immune to genuine credit market volatility for so long. But the plunging share prices offered another kind of correction: that growth in Asia isn't enough to protect its markets against the effects of a U.S. recession. So while shares in China soared last year, "the idea [it] can decouple and not be affected by what happened in their most important export market [the U.S.] was always rubbish," says Stein, so long as domestic consumption can't make up for any shortfall. And neither is Asia resistant...
...idea of an Arab oil power like Abu Dhabi supporting fossil fuel alternatives sounds a bit like a heroin dealer trying to sell methadone, think again. Virtually alone among its Persian Gulf neighbors, Abu Dhabi has embarked on a serious program in alternative energy research, backed with oil money. In 2006 it launched the Masdar Initiative (the name means "source" in Arabic), a multi-pronged scheme that includes a collaborative research institute with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, support for solar and other kinds of green power within the city itself and a clean energy investment fund worth $250 million...
South Carolina did indeed play its traditional winnowing role, most notably by knocking Fred Thompson out of serious contention. The South Carolina result, however, will not be as determinative as it has been in the past. That's because the party itself is such a muddle, having come to South Carolina with three separate winners in the first three big contests. And the primary will soon be followed by an explosion of contests across the map. "The accelerated, front-loaded primary calendar was supposed to create order and instead has given us chaos," says Ralph Reed, the former head...
...even before that flip-flop, Sarkozy's sudden admiration of all things holy starkly contrasted his carefully constructed public image: the repeat divorcee, whose stint as potentially France's most eligible bachelor is endangered by what Sarkozy himself called his "serious" relationship with former top model Carla Bruni. Given that somewhat hedonistic reputation, Sarkozy's expression of newfound piousness led author and famed social commentator Bernard-Herni Lévy to muse in the weekly Le Point over "the probable stupor of Cardinals listening to the apostle of the bling-bling presidency (and) uninhibited relationship with ostentatious pleasure...