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...says, "You don't have people walking around saying 'They don't pay me enough to do this,' cause nobody's getting paid anything." The filmmakers relied on a team of 1,200 volunteers, plus a handful of technical crew members working below rate. They also secured a donated train, hospital wing and fire trucks. Rather than the usual TV spots and billboards, Fireproof's marketers invited Christian publications on set and screened the film early for pastors and church groups. "This audience has to actually feel the fabric," says Meyer Gottlieb, president of Samuel Goldwyn Films. "The marketing...
...September 24 address to the nation that “most economists agree that the problems we are witnessing today developed over a long period of time.” Last week, Dean of Harvard Business School Jay O. Light called the crisis a “slow-motion train wreck,” implying it had been a long time in coming. With these sorts of opinions about the economy, it’s troubling that Paulson did not have such foresight. A Secretary of the Treasury who is unable to notice or acknowledge the symptoms of the crash...
...just shows how much better we can be.” In the lower doubles brackets, the team of senior Catriona Stewart and Laciny went 0-2, losing to teams from Penn and Yale. This week, while Ko battles as an Individual, her teammates will stay behind both to train for the U.S. Open Invitational that starts on Oct. 11th and to recover. “[We need] to get everybody healthy,” Green said. “A few people are injured with bumps and bruises. We’ll be taking a few days...
...years, the Paralympics follow on the heels of the Olympics. Elite athletes with disabilities ranging from blindness to paralysis compete in the same venues and live in the same Olympic athletes’ village. The competitors in the Paralympics are the “elitest of disabled athletes. They train just as hard if not harder as Olympic athletes,” said Peggy L. Ewald, Kolbe’s high school and Paralympic coach. The U.S. Paralympic swimming team won 44 medals in Beijing. Paralympic swimmers are classified according to the severity of their disability, from S1, the most...
...Style: Polished, confident, focused. Fully prepared, and able to convey a real depth of knowledge on nearly every issue. He was unhurried, and rarely lost his train of thought even when the debate wended and winded - and uttered far fewer of his trademark, distracting, "ums." At times, however, Obama revealed the level of his preparation by faltering over a rehearsed answer. He seemed to deliberately focus on the moderator and the home audience, with McCain as an afterthought - except when on the attack. Chose to avoid humor, for the most part, in favor of a stern demeanor...