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...turn a relationship on its head, transform losers into winners, victims into fighters. Speaking to her friend Sébastien about her father, Lolita goes from pushover to pissed off in an instant. "I don't hate him," she says. "I just want him dead." The dialogue is tack-sharp and finely polished, but still so natural it could have floated out of any café on any street corner of Paris. Like other films Bacri and Jaoui have written together, Look at Me uses gentle satire to convey moral lessons: inner beauty trumps physical beauty, creative integrity is more...
...marked up 50% or more, compared with monitors of the same size. LCD TVs often have brighter screens and niftier designs that add to the cost of making them, but the real reason the TVs are more expensive is low volume. With fewer TV sets sold, retailers often tack on higher margins. Prices will also be brought down by competition between LCD and plasma screens. At very large sizes, plasma screens--which use electrically charged pixels of gas to create a picture--are cheaper than LCDs, and at sizes over 50 in., your only choice is plasma. But LCD technology...
This allows Ronzone to tack on what he calls "a random country," a Kazakhstan or a Congo, to the end of each journey. When he arrives--friendless and unannounced--his strategy for expanding his network frequently consists of walking up to people, saying hello and starting to talk about basketball in his train-wreck sentences. More often than not, they talk back. In Kazakhstan, a conversation with a hotel bellman led to the discovery of three raw but promising players at a club team. "Tony talks a lot, and that gets him into these places," says the Pistons' Hammond...
...Kerry aide predicted that by "turning Iraq into a domestic issue," the nominee would soon turn the race around. But it is far from certain that this latest tack will hold for very long because other advisers believe Kerry must get away from the Iraq tar baby once and for all. All that suggests a deeper problem in the campaign: Kerryland appears to be arranged not for speed but for consultation. The Kerry campaign at times resembles a floating five-ring circus of longtime Democratic operatives who have all sorts of views, allegiances and ambitions. That worked fine when...
...opponents say I'm America's lackey," Musharraf complains. "But I don't have the personality of a lackey. I thought this country was going down, getting destroyed." The President's aides say that Musharraf's tougher tack on homegrown extremists is, if anything, a sign of his own convictions, not a response to Washington. His brushes with death, they say, have infused Musharraf with a sense of destiny. "He's had these miraculous escapes," one aide commented, "And now he genuinely thinks he's the chosen man for Pakistan...