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...goofy, he can do suave, and in dramas like Syriana, for which he won an Oscar, he can seem close to emotional exhaustion. Up in the Air, which has already been named the year's best film by the National Board of Review, takes him in a new direction, one that may be closer to his core: a self-sufficient man who doesn't want to be tied down. His Ryan Bingham is a management consultant hired by the bosses at large companies to tell their employees they're no longer employed. And he does so with such ostensible sympathy...
Lueth recently won an $800,000 grant from the Department of Education to develop a teaching model for immersion middle schools, and she advises educators around the country who are starting their own programs. If Yinghua can make Mandarin a success in Minnesota, she tells them, so can they. "This is a glorious culture - and an increasingly important language - that we are meaningfully teaching to our children," she says. "And we're in the middle of nowhere...
Banks, credit-card companies and other financial firms are doing everything they can to wean us off paper. Tracking our accounts online is better for the environment, they say, more convenient and safer too, since we won't have sensitive data sitting in our mailboxes. (The fact that firms save about $1 per statement tends not to make it into the pitch...
...game, they were saying, ‘That’s great you tied the No. 4 team.’” Dempsey said. “Obviously the tie is okay, but it was a little bit disappointing just because we realized that we could have won that game, and we should have—that we were the better team...
...meeting will take place at Sever 113 at 7:30 p.m. If you won't be able to attend, keep an eye on FlyBy—we'll be live-blogging as the drama unfolds. We'll be back in a little over an hour...