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...Affleck is a lightweight. Hand him a big emotional scene, and he'll produce tears on cue, but they're Shirley Temple tears, the miming of a precocious child actor (which Affleck was). He's less at ease with explosive feelings than with small gestures. His specialty is the upward glance of exasperation, which works best when he's playing a work-obsessed cad in need of comeuppance and redemption...
...Foreign Policy article—headlined “Jose, Can You See?”—Huntington casts doubt on the notion that Mexicans will follow the path of upward mobility traced by earlier immigrant groups...
Russia's voters appear to have more realistic expectations of the post-communist era than many American commentators. While op-ed pages in the U.S. sound dire warnings about President Vladimir Putin plunging the country back into the dark days of Stalinism, Putin looks set to win upward of 80 percent of the vote in Sunday's presidential election. One voter who plans to give the president her vote told the New York Times why: "At least he isn't making things worse...
...feeling to bear--at ground zero in New York City. Calatrava was chosen last year to design the $2 billion new terminal there for the PATH commuter line that connects Manhattan with New Jersey. The design he unveiled in January is an angular palisade of white ribs with an upward thrust that he says was inspired by the idea of a child releasing a bird into the air. If ever there was a place that needed a building that lifted the spirit, it's that place. Now it may get one. --By Richard Lacayo
...Harvard, there is no reason not to be involved with the campaign. Since the campaign is just now beginning to focus on the general election, now is the best time to get involved, get noticed and make a difference. The world of campaigns is very fluid and dominated by upward mobility—it is up to the initiative of the individual to make a place within the campaign and excel at it, thus guaranteeing a long-term involvement through the summer. The experience of working for a campaign is unlike any other...