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...detective-cum-action-hero Holmes, Robert Downey Jr. discovers what many great actors have before him—that one can play essentially the same character in many films, provided that one is entertaining enough to get away with it. In Downey’s case, the intellectually brilliant, heavy-drinking and hard-hitting persona of American arms inventor Tony Stark of “Iron Man” proves surprisingly adaptable to 19th century England. That is to say, all that is needed is a change of accent. This is not a deep role...
...aspiring pundit cum politician should always have something to fall back on. Dobbs still has his radio show. Palin has her royalties. And Beck calls his political movement the Plan--which also happens to be the title of a book he's publishing in August, when he'll hold an unveiling rally for the Plan in Washington. It may finally be better to be kingmaker than king (or queen). It certainly pays better...
...Harvard, according to the article, Bernanke was an "academic star," graduating summa cum laude after discovering "that he could no longer get straight A's without studying." (maybe we should try that...
...Attended a private Catholic girls' school in nearby Lake Forest and then Georgetown University, where she gradated magna cum laude in 1984 with a degree in finance...
...among the first women admitted to Williams College in Williamstown, Mass. Graduated cum laude in 1975 and earned a J.D. from the Boston University School...