Word: slow
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...month since Colgan's death, the soldiers have been slow to warm to his replacement, Van Engelen, a stolid, tobacco-spitting 24-year-old who lacks his predecessor's charisma. "I still ain't used to him," mutters Whiteside. "There's a difference of experience." Buxton has become a more active, though neurotic leader. Tonight he spends half an hour drawing up different seating arrangements in the three humvees. As the Tomb Raiders grease their guns and pack flashlights and zip-ties (for cuffing hands) into their flak vests, Winston, the platoon's weathered senior sergeant, briefs them...
Buxton pauses. "There's potential here in Iraq. There's also stuff that needs to be done. It's slow going. But what if we did just leave? Would we really have accomplished anything?" he says. "I don't want to come back here a third time." Outside, the air is crackling with celebratory gunfire. "That reminds me," Buxton says. He gets up from his cot, walks to his door and draws a red X through the picture of Saddam. --With reporting by Brian Bennett/Baghdad, Margot Roosevelt/Los Angeles, Eli Sanders/Kent and Maggie Sieger/Chicago
...better. Behind the simple, unassuming Google home page is a wizard's workshop of experimentation, much of it useless, some of it brilliant. "Invariably we try 10 things that don't quite work out in order to do one thing that's successful," says Page, who speaks in a slow, deeply nerdy, singsong voice. "And we learn a lot in doing the 10 things that didn't quite work." For example, you can call a phone number in California--it's 650-318-0165--and do a Google search over the phone. Why would you ever want to? Who knows...
...film version has a softer, woozily sentimental view of the bridal couple; it shows them running through a meadow in ecstatic slow motion - really. And it dispenses with the novel?s resolution. Woolrich?s killer was the best friend of two of the men; in the film (where he?s played by Jean-Claude Brialy) his function is merely to cast a net of suspicion on the bride. [SPOILER] In the film, the killer is one of the group of five (brutish Daniel Boulanger), who is put in jail before Julie can kill him. Julie materializes at the artist...
...signal the end of the country's troubles, nor the beginning of the end. But it may be the end of the beginning of its turnaround. As Tom Shrager, co-manager of Tweedy, Browne Global Value Fund, puts it, "Everything you hear about Japan you should consider in slow motion, because it moves so sluggishly." With that caveat, here are some reasons to be cheerful...