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...efforts (Good Will Hunting, Finding Forrester). But penitence means internal reflection and self-punishment, not suffering imposed on others. Nevertheless, suffering is the primary experience for viewers of this interminable, plot-free bore. Damon and Casey Affleck star as friends, both nicknamed Gerry, lost and wandering somewhere in Death Valley. The film is slow-witted where it should be thoughtful, pretentious when it should be sincere. As the two title characters drift aimlessly under the merciless desert sun, it’s hard not to look forward to the bitter end. Gerry screens...
...siphon off some of the steam. Provence Promotion - an association that recruits new businesses to the Marseilles area - is trying to lure successful expats back from America. Since September, the Home Sweet Home program has contacted over 5,500 French entrepreneurs and specialized workers in New York, Silicon Valley and southern California with offers to help relocate or open new businesses. The program - now targeting Atlanta, Boston and Miami - has enticed four U.S.-based French business owners to come back; another 15 are thinking about it. Director general Guy Giustini says: "We're encouraging successful entrepreneurs and skilled workers - French...
...years later and hundreds of kilometers away from that stark idyll, Bayarsakhan starts to play one of his father's songs. The tune is rough, but the melody sweet. Words flow from memory?about Gobi-Altai and the land, about saddling up your best horse to ride across the valley. When it's over, Bayarsakhan stares at the ground. "I get sad when I play that," he says. "I wish I could take you to my home. It's so beautiful there." He looks up, smiles, then starts another tune, singing softly about a mother's beauty and the tears...
...Afghanistan, when its technology enabled commanders at a base in, say, Tampa, Fla., to see real-time images of Afghan battlefields. Contracts soon multiplied. "The U.S. has plenty of firepower," says Kevin Landis, chief investment officer of Firsthand Funds, a tech-focused mutual-fund group in Silicon Valley. "But Frank Lanza tells them where to point it." L-3's military customers also include Canada and other NATO countries...
Oberting, who had been waiting her turn in back, suddenly stepped up and facetiously declared she was a reporter from the Valley News—a northern New England paper that often covers Dartmouth athletics. She proceeded to ask Ferguson how she ever managed to save Ruggiero’s shot...