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Burton, 45, has no desire to be understood outside of his movies, but he wouldn't mind being, as he puts it, "un-Burtonized." His new movie, Big Fish, will probably help matters. Big Fish has chimerical elements, but they're in the service of a life-affirming story about fathers and sons, the kind of thing Steven Spielberg keeps returning to. (Spielberg was at one point attached to direct the film, as was The Hours' Stephen Daldry.) The movie stars Albert Finney as a man on his deathbed who recalls his younger self, played by Ewan McGregor...
...your map of Asia, your very brief description of mental illness in India stated that "depression [in India] is little understood and rarely diagnosed." As Federal Minister for Health 30 years ago, I merged two existing institutions to create the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, one of the finest such institutions in Asia. The problems of mental health are well understood in India, and we have departments of psychology in numerous institutions around the nation. Indian society also has a built-in support system whereby gurus and spiritual teachers help disturbed people, whereas in the West this function...
...Brazilian-French nongovernmental organization called Pro-Natura that's trying to help local communities set up democratic decision-making bodies and develop the economy. "They are not doing this to save the planet," says Guy F. Reinaud, Pro-Natura International's president, of Total's motives. "But they've understood that it's in their own interest." Not everyone is won over. At London-based Henderson Global Investors, which manages about $160 billion in assets, fund managers think Total needs to do more. A September 2001 accident at a Total fertilizer plant in Toulouse that killed 30 people raised questions...
...some, the news that Celeris may no longer be an option to Quadlings in search of a late night snack came as a surprise. But several said they understood the reality underlying the store’s difficulties...
...proud of this production’s skill with the gag coordination and choreography called for in Frayn’s script, but the act’s pacing in this staging was so breakneck that a considerable proportion of the jokes flew past either without being noticed or understood. While it’s unlikely that any production could pull off this act in such a way that its audience could understand everything that was happening, a small decrease in this production’s pace would have led to a great leap in audience comprehension while sacrificing little...