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...need caffeine to keep up with this energetic if wall-eyed movie, which switches between Dillinger's exploits and the efforts of Hoover (Billy Crudup) and Purvis to track him down. The bureau, still in its infancy, was initially hamstrung by Hoover's insistence that his agents be stouthearted men, not wily, patient predators. Incompetence caused the bungling of more than one stakeout. Some agents also made use of what the bureau called "vigorous physical interviews" - torture during questioning - as if Billie were an al-Qaeda suspect at Guantánamo. (The one gasp from a preview audience exploded when Billie...
USAGE: "Poorgeoisie and those who pretend to be less wealthy have been with us for years. What has changed is that many of them no longer have to pretend." --Wall Street Journal, June...
...Sources: Wall Street Journal; New York Times; USA Today; Washington Times; New York Times; AP; USA Today...
...cult whose leader, known only as Friend, takes power many years later. The special effects are rudimentary, but the churning of plot, and the richness of character and detail, keep you glued. One prophesy - that "The satanic salesmen will destroy the world" - might have referred to the Wall Street sharpies who crippled the world economy last fall, after the first two movies were made...
...prominently dictated the University's operations this past year, is not the only high-profile finance administrator to leave the University this summer. Harvard announced little more than a month ago that its Executive Vice President, Edward C. Forst ’82, would leave Harvard in August for Wall Street, where he had worked for 26 years. Forst worked closely with Sweet in his role overseeing University finances amid the economic downturn...