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...world of finance—providing credit and financing to firms and households. The industry’s latest ideas seem more like “Modest Proposals” than serious pitches, more tongue-in-cheek ways to expose the industry’s greed than earnest ideas to provide financial services. The future will certainly be grim if, in the drive to resurrect the financial markets, reason and ethics are further abandoned along...
...watched her TV show, “The French Chef,” and read her book. She made haute cuisine accessible, encouraging women to deviate beyond Jell-O molds and to risk failure in order to achieve culinary—and personal—triumphs. Child is earnest and fearless, but also human; we see her emotional suffering after failing to conceive with her husband Paul (Stanley Tucci). The two share a passionate relationship, and the viewer inevitably falls in love with the 6’2” powerhouse as well as her understanding partner. Powell, however, does...
...company he built from the ground up, a factory that produces flavoring extracts of all sorts, from cookies and cream to root beer. Unlike his gruff business partner Brian (J.K. Simmons), he knows all of them by name, from shrill Mary (Beth Grant) to Step (Clifton Collins Jr.), an earnest goofball who aspires to be floor manager. Because of Joel, Reynolds Extract is the coziest factory around. (See TIME's top 10 movie bromances...
...Chicago airport immigration asks for her occupation, she answers "Yes" with great enthusiasm, referring to the political state she's lived in. She's the sort of person who, if confronted with the anti-immigrant sentiment "Why don't you just go home?" would naively attempt to give an earnest answer, explaining about the limited educational opportunities for her smart teenage boy Fadi (Melkar Muallem) in West Bank, or how long her commute to and from Bethlehem became after Israel stepped up construction of the Israeli West Bank barrier. Or maybe she'd elaborate on what it felt like every...
...that all sounds too earnest, it isn't really. Loafing is judiciously encouraged with a strategic scattering of hammocks, books and board games among the various sundecks and thatched-roofed palapas (pavilions), and massages are ministered en suite. If you're feeling active, a cornucopia of outdoor pursuits and cultural jaunts to indigenous villages and coffee plantations await. The ace up Laguna's sleeve, however, is its own 100-acre (40 hectare) nature reserve. Rising from the lake edge up through large cliffs to ancient ceremonial rocks and tropical dry forest, it's pure Maya magic. See www.lagunalodgeatitlan.com...