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...greatest hit, 1991's The Silence of the Lambs, was his high point - black and scary, but featuring a cannibal so smart and sardonic that you had no problem imagining Jodie Foster sort of falling for him - or at least having a wary dinner with him. This was Demme in from the fringe, operating in the mainstream - and about to lose his way with the ponderous, if well-meant, AIDS drama, Philadelphia. After that it has all been pomp and boredom - Beloved, The Manchurian Candidate, a documentary about Jimmy Carter, for heaven's sake...
...with negative airflow, which contains and filters air circulating through TB wards. A single such center is hardly enough, but it is a start. "It shows you it is possible," says Raviglione. And that is the most powerful lesson in TB today. The bug can adapt; if we're smart, so can we. -with reporting by Megan Lindow/Cape Town, Madhur Singh/New Delhi and Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow
...Coen Brothers Burn It Up! Richard Corliss apparently does not have the same sense of humor my friends and I have [Sept. 22]. In the theater where I saw Burn After Reading, everyone laughed throughout. The Coen brothers are very smart about people who do stupid things. The scene in which the detective tries to speed away but has parked between two cars and cannot get out is right out of a Road Runner cartoon. Wile E. Coyote is alive and well! Judith Canaan, KALAMAZOO, MICH...
...Office of Career Services Career Forum. But that’s not to say that the rockin’ fair was full of doom and gloom. One company that seemed determined to keep the good times coming, despite the plunging economy, was Facebook. “Everyone is very smart, very passionate, and... we have Facebook prom!” University Recruiting Representative Marcia Velencia says. Think of it as prom, but with socially awkward computer programmers replacing socially awkward teenage boys. Another web attraction was Google—this most popular search engine is celebrating its ten-year birthday...
...there are a lot of people who are so much more talented that I could ever be and are doing this every day.” Many of these student funds are researched and managed part-time by undergraduates who don’t necessarily provide their own money. Smart Women Securities, a student group that seeks to educate women about how to manage money has a fund donated by alumni and sponsors. More than 150 associates complete extensive market research on three separate funds. Another group of 13 money managers meet weekly to make final decisions on the positions...