Word: tiered
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...Colonize the Web: With his three-minute web debut, The Landlord, Will Ferrell made the Internet safe for A-list comics. You could do the same for top-tier directors, by curating a Web site full of shorts from your classy friends. Think of it as the 21st century version of how you started, playing your student films on a bed sheet strung up in somebody's backyard...
...Forgotten Allies No one would wish to devalue the sacrifice of Canada's soldiers in Afghanistan, but Samantha Power's statement [April 28] that "Canada occupies the fighting tier, alongside the U.S. Britain, Denmark and the Netherlands" is disappointingly incomplete. It might interest Power to learn that Australia has almost a thousand troops on the ground in Afghanistan, 350 dedicated to the reconstruction effort, but at least 400 more on operational duties, which puts them very much in the fighting tier. Anthony Connell, Sydney...
...only a handful of NATO countries that have embraced the task of actual war-fighting. The Canadians, who have 2,500 troops on the ground, have suffered 82 fatalities, a death rate that is higher than the U.S. military's in Iraq. In an increasingly two-tiered NATO alliance, Canada occupies the fighting tier, alongside the U.S., Britain, Denmark and the Netherlands...
...movie really runs on Dennis Quaid's misanthropic conviction. He's one of those second-tier stars who has generally not been treated well by Hollywood. But whether he's called upon to play mulish, churlish or just to do some hard-charging action, we always sense an underlying decency in him - he has a good soldier quality that can be very appealing. In a way, his work is emblematic of the movie as a whole. There's nothing world shattering about Smart People. No one is ever going to call it a "must see" movie...
...There are still a few first-tier Cabinet jobs that come with independent clout: State, Defense, Justice, Treasury and perhaps Homeland Security. But while the size of the Cabinet has doubled since the Kennedy administration, federal policymaking has shifted to the White House, and an ever-expanding army of West Wing staffers now controls most of the levers of power. Most Cabinet secretaries merely take orders on questions of consequence, which is one reason why independent thinkers like Christine Todd Whitman haven't lasted long in the Bush Cabinet, and why the Clintonite Robert Reich wrote a book called "Locked...