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...malicious," says Harold Ramis, who directed Murray in Caddyshack and Groundhog Day. "He's just a ronin or a samurai in his commitment to no existing authority. I don't know what the standard is he's upholding, but when someone is acting outside of it, he will do whatever he feels is necessary to bring them into line." Ramis continues, "But it's also very hard being the kind of star he is. Few scripts are perfect, and every movie Bill's been in, he's put on his shoulders and made infinitely better. That's an incredible burden...
...arbitrarily demand renegotiation of the agreement when it thinks it might get less? We can only imagine the uproar about broken promises and bad faith that would ensue if Harvard cynically tried to renege on a bargain. Cambridge should have enough self-respect to hold itself to a similar standard...
...Blunkett says is his son. An authorized biography full of nasty remarks about his Cabinet colleagues was released as his troubles mounted, making enemies when he needed friends. One day after he attended the Christmas party of backbench Labour M.P.s and awkwardly sang the Fred Astaire?Ginger Rogers standard Pick Yourself Up, he was forced to dust himself off and start all over again. Charles Clarke, the bruising former Education Secretary and close buddy of Prime Minister Tony Blair, will replace Blunkett. He has a big job: Blair is grounding his re-election campaign this year on the security agenda...
...RUDE, 88, who as an aircraft-company worker in the late 1940s invented a flexible board out of a junked aluminum wing panel and eventually turned it into a multimillion-dollar international diving-board company, Duraflex; in Stanley, N.D. More durable than wood, Duraflex boards are now the standard at the Olympics and other major diving events...
...scoured the globe for heavily armored humvees, sending to Iraq hundreds that had been based in the Balkans, Germany and South Korea. Even a few earmarked to protect the Pentagon have been sent "downrange," as soldiers say. At $180,000 each, they cost more than twice as much as standard humvees...