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...deal. But in 1986, sweeping deregulation known as the Big Bang finally blew things wide open. Out went the late starts, long lunches and cartel practices beloved of London's fusty gents. In came U.S. investment bankers toiling for Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and others, and, with them, a vital injection of talent and competitive instincts...
...leaks are vital to the freedom of the press, then surely both of the people needed to create a leak-the reporter and the source-deserve protection. If Judy Miller is a martyr of press freedom, then so is Scooter Libby...
...that comes with scoring the "it" handbag? Can it make a lasting impression? Designers are under such intense pressure these days to produce commercial merchandise or sign their names to fast-fashion emporiums like H&M and Target that they seem to have forgotten about one of fashion's vital mandates: fantasy...
...early September, after being advised by their lawyers that they might be withholding vital information, the Manns turned over the tapes to the defense without clearing their action with Stevens. Later they gave them to the state attorney general's office. "We had no choice," says Mann. News of the tapes distressed parents of the 13 children involved in the case. A lawyer for the families has asked the state attorney general to investigate whether Stevens violated a state law that bars a prosecutor from assisting in the defense of a case in which he had been involved. Others question...
What most of these directors share is a gift for bending, sometimes gleefully mutilating, film form: taking old narratives styles like the crime movie or musical or horror film and making them fresh, vital, dangerous. The subjects could be familiar--amnesia in Nolan's Memento, obsession in Aronofsky's Pi--but when the story was told in reverse, or turned into a weird thriller, the narrative ingenuity became bracing and delicious. They were different from Hollywood--and different meant better...