Word: sharpness
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...answer is that the Coens' crime caper is sharp and smart and was certainly worthy of a top slot. Gray's cop drama rarely reached the emotional boiling point, but the Tarantino and Fincher films, if not nearly the best of the directors' work, paraded the filmmaking brio, the narrative twists and drive, that mark solid updates of the classic Hollywood style. That the jurors ignored every member of this quartet, while laying hands on Van Sant's very minor indie effort, could possibly suggest an anti-Hollywood agenda. Major U.S. studios may take the hint, and be more reluctant...
...When Jean-Dominique Bauby, the editor of French Elle, suffered a stroke at the age of 42, he was rendered totally immobile except for his left eyelid. His condition, "locked-in syndrome," left his memory and sharp wit unimpeded, but Bauby had no way to communicate, and felt like a man in a diving bell, the captive of his enclosure, instead of a butterfly, with the blessed freedom of movement. He eventually learned to "talk" by the tortuously slow process of listening to his therapist run through the alphabet and blinking when she spoke the right letter...
...likely to be found among London's fast-growing community of exiled Russian dissidents and expats. Russian human rights activist Oleg Panfilov says he does not expect the Kremlin to change its tune now. "They see the whole thing not as a crime to be resolved, but as a sharp point of their confrontation with the West...
...runs his business the same way he plays his hockey--sharp and concentrated in handling passes--and he scores, says the associate. Medvedev also hits as hard as the Kremlin wants. One such hit shook Sakhalin Energy (SE), operator of the Shell-led Sakhalin II consortium. At $20 billion, it is the world's largest integrated oil-and-gas-export project, with total reserves of some 4 billion bbl. of oil equivalent (BOE) and total project capacity of 395,000 BOE per day, including 9.6 million tons per year of liquefied-natural-gas production. It is also the largest single...
...What would President Gore do? Well, on Capitol Hill in March, Citizen Gore offered his ideas. He advocates an immediate freeze on CO2 emissions and a campaign of sharp reductions-90% by 2050. To get there, he would eliminate the payroll tax and replace it with a carbon tax, so the cost of pollution is finally priced into the market. "I understand this is considered politically impossible," he told the House Energy and Commerce Committee. "But part of our task is to expand the limits of what's possible." He would adopt a cap-and-trade program that would allow...