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...Damned United?? is the story of six years in the life of the late Brian Clough (Sheen), a soccer manager legendary for his success on the pitch as well as his penchant for the irreverent sound bite and a tendency, like Charles de Gaulle and Michael Jordan, to see his team as an extension of himself. Loosely based on the novel of the same name by David Peace, the film focuses on Clough’s ill-fated 44-day tenure as manager of Leeds United??“The Damned United?...
...Fever Pitch” (1997; not the Jimmy Fallon movie about the Red Sox), Clough is consumed by soccer to the detriment of his mental and physical health and the well-being of those around him. But the true emotional and thematic centerpiece of “The Damned United?? is the relationship between Clough and his assistant manager, Peter Taylor (brilliantly played by Timothy Spall, best known for his role as Peter Pettigrew in the “Harry Potter” movies). Taylor is the antithesis to Clough—quiet, low-key, and behind...
...United??s buyout was not a fluke. A 2000 Rutgers study showed that worker-owned companies experienced average employment and sales growth that was 2.3 to 2.4 percent higher than non-worker-owned firms. In other words, these companies grow to be on average a third larger than traditionally owned firms over the course of 10 years...
...Carr Center was founded in 1999 to prepare Kennedy School students for public service careers and to research solutions to public policy problems. Humanity United??s $2,100,000 grant is one of several the Carr Center has received since its founding, including a $337,600 grant from the Carnegie Corporation and a $245,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation...
...What it did was articulate a vision of America—that is was once united and is now deeply dis-united??that seems to me to have been mistaken but profoundly important,” Jennifer L. Hochschild, Jayne professor of Government, said yesterday...