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Take, for example, Poppy's driving lessons. They are conducted by an instructor named Scott (played by Eddie Marssan) in a state of rage, the suppression of which becomes more and more difficult for him. It's a great performance, in which unhappy autobiographical details leak out through perpetually clenched teeth. Scott's student is, of course, his opposite. He hates her boots - inappropriate, he believes, for serious engagement with the auto's pedals - and he hates the casual good cheer she brings into the claustrophobic car they are obliged to share, and above all he despises himself for being...
...assign a single cause to the behavior of stock markets - which are aggregations of thousands of companies - is at best difficult and at worst foolish. Nonetheless, there were events that were hard to ignore. Insurance contracts tied to the debt of the now defunct Lehman Brothers were finally settled up, and - after much breath-holding - no other firms unraveled. In Washington, black SUVs and town cars of the G-7's central bankers and Treasury officials rolled into town, bringing with them the hope that the people with the power to fix things - assuming there are such people - will collectively...
...computer science graduate students Neil V. Jhaveri and Daniel Shteremberg, the countless hours spent working in research laboratories, leading projects, and completing difficult courses paid off—literally—on Tuesday when they were named 2009 Siebel Scholars...
...biggest changes to the nano are physical. Apple ditched the chubby form factor of its last generation of nano for a tall, thin player, while keeping the screen size the same. While the slimmer player beats the old model on visual appeal, the new shape makes it more difficult to shove into a pocket...
...saved and nourished at even a pound and a half. We spend hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars to save little premature babies and that shows a real commitment on our part. And then we turn right around and, for the mentally ill, we have made it so difficult for so long to even say it's an illness that you just can't quite figure it out. We can do better...