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...World Trade Center” is moving, to be sure, but rarely in ways that don’t feel like cheap shots tugging at well-worn American heartstrings (and wallets), which may explain why Stone’s 9/11 film feels unnecessarily exhausting while Greengrass’ doesn?...
...defeated Napoleon at Waterloo), economist John Maynard Keynes, writers Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Orwell, Soviet spy Guy Burgess, actor Hugh Laurie, Princes William and Harry, the fictional James Bond, even a Roman Catholic saint - as well as generations of less illustrious worthies. The problem is that in a more meritocratic age, Eton became synonymous with "English aristocrat." Its well-worn image is as a finishing school for not-necessarily-deserving boys whose parents can afford $44,000 in fees each year (Harvard costs nearly the same) to ensure they develop the easy confidence, posh accent and useful contacts that...
President Bush followed a well-worn path to the Goldman Sachs well when he tapped Hank Paulson, the firm's CEO since 1999, to succeed John Snow as Treasury Secretary. Across Wall Street, they are hoping that Paulson can bring a gravitas to the job that has been missing since the tenures of Larry Summers and another former Goldman executive, Robert Rubin, both of whom served under President Clinton...
...business. In New Orleans, both happened overnight. Hurricane Katrina sundered what no man could, sending the criminals fleeing in all directions. So now there was a mystery: What would happen next? What would become of the criminal population when stripped of its neighborhood affiliations, its drug suppliers and a well-worn black-market infrastructure? This is a story about what happened to the gangs of New Orleans. But it is also a story about a culture of killing and what it takes to change...
...Cloud Atlas, he turned the postmodern book inside out by setting pieces in six different ages and voices, then doubling back (a little too fancily perhaps) to explore the idea of "eternal recurrence." In his new, most deeply personal work, Mitchell does something even more remarkable: he makes the well-worn coming-of-age novel feel vivid and uncomfortable and new. The revolution here is not of form, but of content and sensibility...