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...privy to their content, but director P.J. Hogan probably didn't want to trouble the American moviegoing public with such details. That Becky and Luke (who happens to be rich - he's basically a walking lottery ticket) will fall in love is also a given, but that's a touch harder to swallow. It's not that Dancy isn't cute - he is, like a smaller, more delicately featured Hugh Grant - but simply because Becky seems more interested in mannequins than in men. There's nothing womanly about any of her getups; they're more like costumes...
Faith and Longevity If belief in a pill can be so powerful, belief in God and the teachings of religion - which touch devout people at a far more profound level than mere pharmacology - ought to be even more so. One way to test this is simply to study the health of regular churchgoers. Social demographer Robert Hummer of the University of Texas has been following a population of subjects since 1992, and his results are hard to argue with. Those who never attend religious services have twice the risk of dying over the next eight years as people who attend...
...formerly at Galvin Bistrot de Luxe in London) makes use of local produce to create a tempting take-off menu: the piquant steak tartare is already proving a runaway success. And on the walls, black-and-white photos of Hollywood stars getting on or disembarking from airplanes add a touch of nostalgic air-travel glamour. As airport hotels go, Aviator is a real departure...
...been imprisoned, humiliated and accused of being a puppet of the West, but I believe he is a Zimbabwean patriot in touch with the vast majority of his people. He has shown he has stamina." - George Bizos, a South African lawyer who was Mr. Tsvangirai's advocate during his treason trial in 2004, on critics who call Tsvangirai too naive or cowardly to address Zimbabwe's political and social ills (International Herald Tribune...
Corporate managers in Asia have always treated their staff with a touch of paternalism. Companies were not meant to be simply places of work, but big, happy families. In parts of north Asia, especially Japan and South Korea, employees spent more time with their coworkers, either at their desks slaving away until late at night or in regular evening drinking fests, than with their own husbands and wives. Layoffs were considered unseemly. In Japan, a social contract of "lifetime employment" guaranteed full-time employees they would have jobs until retirement. In China, communism brought the "iron rice bowl" and institutionalized...