Word: spotlessness
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...share of the Ivy League title with Yale (12-3, 5-1) and Princeton. The victory made it three straight Ivy crowns for the Crimson. This Harvard-Yale clash was shaping up to be more than the typical meeting between these two rivals. Entering the contest, Yale held a spotless 5-0 league record, with Harvard trailing one game behind in second place at 4-1. The two teams stayed close at the start of the match, with Yale holding a 3-2 advantage through five as the Crimson dropped matches at the sixth, eighth and ninth spots...
...Globodyne a lesson. Recently, it seems that Carrey is looking for more than just laughs when choosing roles: the smash hit “Bruce Almighty” was a pretty typical comedy, but also examined a man’s faith; “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” told a formulaic romantic story in a brilliant, new way. Here, he still manages to perform the slapstick that a Carrey connoisseur loves—he shocks himself with his dog’s electric collar, sending his trademark elastic limbs into spasm?...
...Proof”), they at least started something, and now other companies are doing it better—like James Schamus’s Focus Features for example, who have released “Far From Heaven,” “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” “Broken Flowers,” and is currently gearing up for the big gay explosion of “Brokeback Mountain,” which, if pre-release reviews are any indication, is going to be a monster hit. As one IMDB blogger asks...
...rolling south from Pyongyang toward Kaesong near the DMZ, searching for signs of economic life in North Korea. Pyongyang, the capital, was like a ghost town?its spotless streets scrubbed clean of the messy bustle that defines most Asian capitals. The highway to the country's second-biggest city is nearly deserted. But our government handlers have promised to show us the Kaesong industrial park, where North Koreans are churning out watches, shoes and kitchenware in newly built South Korean-owned factories. After a two-hour drive, the bus stops on a bridge in the middle of nowhere. No industrial...
...Business As Usual German business has always had a spotless reputation for moral probity. Lately, however, a succession of corruption scandals has dented the country's corporate self-image. In June and July, fraud and bribery charges were leveled against top executives at carmaker Volkswagen and at Infineon, Europe's second largest computer-chip maker. Now another iconic national brand, BMW, is making unsavory headlines. Last week, one of the firm's sales managers was arrested on allegations of taking up to $100,000 in bribes from an east German supplier for funneling orders its way. So far, the executive...