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...Alistair Darling doesn't flinch but he is a brave man, willing to step into the biggest shoes in government. He inherits a robust economy with record employment, low inflation and a history of sustained growth, an achievement that's the proudest boast of his predecessor, now the Prime Minister, who will expect Darling to maintain the steady course set over New Labour's first decade in office...
...brings in about $6 billion in revenue annually and depicting it as a levy on a small élite. "If you get rid of it, it follows that some other tax has to go up or you have to cut some public spending, on health and education," countered Alistair Darling, the Trade and Industry Secretary. Abolishing inheritance tax "may make for a headline, but I don't think it makes for a prudent and sensible tax and spend policy." When it comes to the figures, both sides are right. It's true that only a fraction of British households...
...second session replacing the late Richard Harris as Hogwarts principal Dumbledore, Michael Gambon has a ponderous, aristocratic humanism. Gary Oldman?s Sirius, the human-canine from the third film, has a bright cameo as a face in the fireplace. The movie strikes black gold with Alistair ?Mad-Eye? Moody, Hogwarts? new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Played by Brendan Gleeson with a swagger and spume not seen since Robert Newton?s Long John Silver (another charming dastard), Mad-Eye has a globular left orb that stares skeptically, maniacally, at all it surveys. He seems both amiable and deranged...
...They by no means have a monopoly on social life at Yale,” says Alistair F. Anagnostou, a member of the Yale Class of 2005. “Frats are at least consistent—if you want to find a party on a Saturday night, there’s going...
...almost immediately, the central storyline is shoved out by a series of subplots that meander in and out of the movie’s consciousness, rarely gaining enough thematic momentum or significance to justify their existences. A rivalry with fellow oceanographer Alistair Hennessey (Jeff Goldblum) offers a handful of barbed laughs, but ultimately devolves into plot-driving filler. Utterly superfluous segments about the expedition’s financial woes cheekily squander the ample talents of actor Michael Gambon (Gosford Park). To decry an Anderson film for its sideline prattling may be missing the point, but where seemingly nonsensical scenes might...