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...Consider that of the 19 films nominated for Oscars this past year in the major categories (picture, director, actor, actress, supporting actor and actress), 12 had played at TIFF in 2007, as had the winners in four of those six slots. Such multiple nominees as No Country for Old Men, Michael Clayton, Atonement, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, The Savages, Away from Her and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly had received their first big North American push on Lake Ontario. The preponderance of TIFF veterans among Academy favorites is nothing new. In 2006 the top contenders for Best Picture were...
...most important diplomatic sagas of the Bush years. His is an impressively researched tale of how the Administration's take-no-prisoners idealism gave way to the reality of what could be done with a North Korea that refused to buckle. Ultimately Bush's approach, says Chinoy, led to "six years of needless brinksmanship, missed opportunities, and the disastrous elevation of North Korea and Kim Jong Il to the club of nuclear powers...
...later it exploded a nuclear device, joining the élite club of seven other known nuclear states. Years of "warnings, threats, sanctions, muscle-flexing and half-hearted diplomacy" had made North Korea more, not less, dangerous. Chinoy quotes one U.S. policymaker comparing Washington's policy toward Pyongyang to "a six-year old playing checkers," with no ability to look beyond the next move...
...same to the Vegas big shots. Melco Crown is one of only six companies permitted to run casinos in Macau, the Chinese enclave that has surpassed Las Vegas in total gambling revenue. And Ho, 31, has matched his competitors chip for chip. His first casino-hotel, the Crown Macau, saw few customers when it opened in May 2007. But Melco Crown swiftly closed the gap. Its market share of 16% in the first half of 2008 was just a whisker behind Wynn with 17% and Las Vegas Sands at 21%, according to Citi Investment Research. More impressively, the Crown...
...Class Should Not Be Dismissed In his essay on affirmative action, Michael Kinsley argues that class distinction is a social problem we "currently don't have much of" [Aug. 25]. What about so-called legacy college admissions, preferential scholarships, cronyism and hiring practices that often involve far fewer than six degrees of nepotistic separation? I would suggest consulting those at the bottom of the ladder before consigning the problem to the dustbin. Lane R. Garland, Winder...