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...wait, it gets worse. As the computerized Armada heave into sight, Elizabeth, dolled up in Joan of Arc drag - shining armor, waving a big sword - takes it into her head to rally her troops, drawn up on the shore, impotently waiting for the naval engagement to begin. She is given a noble rallying speech to sing out - her St. Crispin's Day moment - but, putting this as gently as possible, Nicholson and Hirst are not exactly the Bard of Avon, and Kapur is not exactly Laurence Olivier when it comes to staging this emptily rhetorical, entirely fictional moment. The director...
...heard that one before, Mr. Fasci-ism). I also asked him whether anyone has ever successfully escaped with an un-checked-out book: “It’s happened more than once,” he claims. Sometimes, situations are nuanced and delicate, and one should wait before passing judgment. But sometimes, irrationality and bureaucratic inefficiency stare you in the face so directly that there is no need to think twice. There is no justification for a security system worthy of Logan Airport in a college library. So Heather Cole, Dave Pilbeam, Drew Faust, and anyone else that...
...Instead of having to wait at Boylston Gate for maybe 10 or 15 minutes at 2 a.m., they can just walk out when it’s coming,” Kumar said...
...knew Andrew would not be able to tell the full story until he had safely left Burma but that it would be worth the wait. For few foreigners know Burma as intimately as he, and nobody has written about it with more power. His book The Trouser People (Penguin; 2003) is the definitive account of modern Burmese society. Andrew arrived in Rangoon just in time to catch the uprising at its most optimistic: the monks had been joined by thousands of ordinary Burmese, infused with hope that they would get the junta to bend and perhaps break. Andrew joined...
...Chase, 44, arrived in Bangalore in January 2006 to head Accenture's research and development lab. "I come from a culture where people love a plan," she says. "The plan is God." Not in India. She would step away from meetings confident that a plan was in place and wait for its execution. And wait. And wait. "It happened so many times that finally I changed my whole style," says Chase. "I talk to my team every day, ask them how it's going. I spend a huge proportion of time chasing...