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These are admirable developments (at least in the eyes of those who still believe socialism can succeed). But they are somehow incongruous in a country where the national beverage is champagne (or perhaps a fine red wine) and the average citizen more concerned with appearances and cuisine than politics...
...supposed to come with a silver lining. Has Asia's crisis laid the foundation for sounder economic growth in the future? The answer is a definite maybe. The crisis has curbed some of the worst abuses of crony capitalism, and it has tempered the dangerous belief that "Asian values" somehow made the region's economies bulletproof. The crisis has also probably done some good by softening free-market fundamentalism: countries are less likely to be pressured into throwing their capital markets open to the world before their financial markets are ready, and Washington is less likely to view the main...
...Frankel learned a lesson from his failed funds, it was that clients insist on getting their money back. He needed to find clients who wouldn't be so demanding. Even better, if he could somehow become both client and money manager, he could create a truly sustainable scam. That's when the insurance companies entered the picture...
...could see, and somehow not quite see, the movie in this story of a fashionable yet conscientious physician and his wife whose nine-year marriage has produced an adored child, genuine mutual affection and a growing sexual restlessness. Everything depended on its realization. Cruise's character, Dr. William Harford, is in some ways a dim and passive fellow, self-victimized and hard to care for. His wife Alice would have been easy to play either ditsy or bitchy. But there is in Cruise a kind of passionate watchfulness and in Kidman a desperate and touching candor, and they keep drawing...
...brings to life two vividly drawn, uncompromising characters, both as blinkered to the moral implications of their acts as Ally McBeal is relentlessly self-aware. The Mametesque monologues (LaBute was a playwright before directing his first feature, 1996's In the Company of Men) are a bit formulaic but somehow richer and more convincing than the occasionally forced misanthropy in his films...