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...never feels pushed into a scene as if he's a Hollywood actor; most of the time he actually seems like a guy who somehow just wandered into the frame. But he's so confident that I think it actually put Will in this great position of being the straight man and setting Danny up. Will didn't have to score every time, and actually most of the times we had to stop a take, it was because Will was cracking up at what Danny was doing. (Read TIME's Q&A: Danny McBride...
Those bullish on global economic recovery have their data points: the steady upward climb of world stock markets, three straight months of Chinese manufacturing expansion, the weak dollar. But there are still plenty of skeptics of a rapid and robust turnaround, with their own set of numbers to cite: continued bleeding of private-sector jobs in the U.S. and Europe, more record lows in new home construction, and, er, the weak dollar. (Watch TIME's video of Peter Schiff trash-talking the markets...
...marketers struggle to find ways to make an impression on a population saturated in all kinds of media, the too-hot-for-TV online-only video has become an increasingly common device. And in order to get customers to seek out and recommend the straight-to-YouTube video, marketers often reach for comedy from the appropriateness hinterlands. Especially when trying to reel in young...
...There is no straight line to realize this promise. But this much is clear: governments that protect these rights are ultimately more stable, successful and secure. Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away. America respects the right of all peaceful and law-abiding voices to be heard around the world, even if we disagree with them. And we will welcome all elected, peaceful governments - provided they govern with respect for all their people...
...don’t think anyone could have foreseen the type of financial wind shear that lay ahead,” Mendillo says. “On July 3, the commodities market peaked after having been up 70 percent last year...and it went downward, pretty much in a straight line, to a negative 70 percent correction during the course of the fiscal year. That’s just one market.” But even before she returned to Harvard, Mendillo had been meeting regularly for months with interim HMC CEO Robert Kaplan, a professor at Harvard Business School...