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...corrupt system, and the ingenuity with which the big-money boys land on their feet while stepping on ours. He must also have thought that many in his audience would be familiar with the shuttle of heavy hitters between Goldman Sachs and recent Administrations, Republican and Democratic. Moore does summon University of Missouri professor Bill Black, author of the 2005 book The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One, to describe Robert Rubin, Henry Paulsen, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner and others as "powerful lobbyists from the inside, and we paid their salaries...
...American Pie” (the English equivalent, I suppose, of Americans who compare my home life to Hogwarts), I once again experience that insurmountable inability to ever accurately conjure an impression of life on the other side of the pond. Just as no amount of description will ever summon the myriad of associations attached to North West London, my friends at home are forever unable to truly understand such foreign concepts as proctors or sororities...
...paying patients' doctors for visits during those stays - a major moneymaker for physicians. Those doctors should instead be motivated, financially or otherwise, by plans to focus more on preventive health-care treatments. Either way, when it comes to reforming health-care albatrosses like Miami, Washington will probably have to summon up more carrots and sticks than it ever imagined...
...Davies, then, was just the fellow for the local burghers to summon as a celebrant-critic for the 800th anniversary of the founding of the borough of Liverpool in 1207. They commissioned Of Time and the City, which Davies fashioned into a kind of Liverpool mon amour: a 71-min. documemoir that underscores newsreels of the city, home movies and new footage with romantic strains from Liszt, Mahler, Brahms, Fauré. Anchoring the piece are Davies' fond and acid recollections of his home town - what he, in his drawling, very un-Liverpudlian narrative voice, calls "a valediction and an epitaph...
...grind, but having a real point and not being about self-display. I think that’s very impressive. LD: I would certainly say that of [him], but also his unbelievable range. He doesn’t ever feel like showing off. He can just summon things from completely unexpected areas and pull them together. THC: What has been one of your biggest struggles in writing one of your past works or in general, and how did you deal with it?LD: Well for me I would say, I’ve never felt very integrated with the academic...