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...same theme as Cormac’s book,” he says, in reference to the arbitrary incidents that propel the story forward. “It’s what happens to Llewellyn.”Despite the film’s dark and bleak tone, Brolin remembers his time on set with the other actors as a positive experience.“We had a lot of fun,” he recalls. “It was important to us. We wanted to get away from the tense feeling the script was about...
With the earnest tone of a teacher aching for his students to understand, Kotlikoff creates a stark picture of our looming financial straits. The "fiscal gap," or difference between what social programs cost and the money the government is bringing in to pay for them, is now about $230,000 per citizen...
...keeping with her buttoned-up demeanor. In her memoir, Living History, she writes that she was tasked in grade school with keeping the "incorrigible boys" in line, a role that seems entirely in character. Conservatives bristle at the sense of being told what to do, and they detect a tone of moral superiority in her advocacy of children's programs and health care. When she says, "It takes a village," they hear an implicit threat to have government impinge on their prerogatives as parents...
...fact that absolute pitch - the ability to name any isolated musical tone - shows up on the scanner as an exaggerated asymmetry between the size of certain structures in the right and left sides of the brain falls far short of explaining how it's acquired. What gets closer are the observations that 50% of people born blind or blind from a young age have absolute pitch, and that it's four times more common among first-year music students in Beijing than those in New York - a reflection of the fact that the Chinese are more attuned to pitch, having...
...Then came new French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the crafty political operator known for exploiting his opponents' weaknesses in ways they don't expect. A social dinner Tuesday night at the White House was followed by a trip Wednesday to Mount Vernon set the collegial tone. And Bush laid it on thick at a joint press conference at Washington's home Wednesday, saying Sarkozy had "impressed a lot of people here on your journey," and telling the French leader that he has "a strong set of universal values in your heart...