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...patiently poured oil on Capote's roiled waters. She was skittish, slightly wounded but also discreetly sexy in The 40-Year-Old Virgin. She was tough, omnicompetent and smart-mouthed as an FBI agent in The Interpreter. And she did the best she could to assert the reality principle amid the general incompetence of The Ballad of Jack and Rose. In 2005 Catherine Keener was everywhere, in big pictures and small, in hits and flops, quietly but insistently asserting her claim to being possibly the best character actress working today...
...human-intelligence enhancement. How much quicker and more acute do people really want to be? How many more bits per cubic inch of gray matter do people wish they could store? People whose minds are generally healthy, that is. People who, for their age and condition, are already smart enough...
...appears to be waking up to the fact that a long, comfortable period in its national life is coming to an end. Canadians are justly proud of their record of assimilating large numbers of immigrants from Southeast Asia and Africa over the past decade into a thriving multicultural society. Smart economic management, fueled by eight successive federal budget surpluses, has given this otherwise modest power an influential voice at the G-8 and international institutions like the United Nations. But those halcyon days are ending. Canada is losing ground - and influence - to competitors overseas, and some worry that the country...
...season bests. Senior Laura Robinson scored ten points on 5-of-8 shooting, and added five assists. “She just made great decisions,” Delaney-Smith said, “as she has done in almost every game, adding great poise. She just took really smart shots.” Freshman Katie Rollins, in just her third career game since returning from an injury on December 28, added ten points, her most in a single game. “She’s just coming back,” Delaney-Smith said...
...meeting room was dotted with coal miners, some of whom braved fierce criticism from Appalachian rivals, and one white participant, Peggy Terry, admitted being raised in a Kentucky Klan family. After moving to Montgomery during the bus boycott, she had gone once on a lark to see "that smart aleck nigger come out of jail," and the actual sight of King buffeted by a mob had angered her. Now Terry kept a few black friends in the Jobs Or Income Now group from uptown Chicago's poor white district, and she wowed movement crowds by asking where else a hillbilly...