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In a quietly divine performance, William Hurt plays Brett, a man with no one to greet him when he gets out of prison. He walks to a café, orders a beer, sits down to write a letter and observes the town tartlet (she's very young) get rejected by...
"Citi's CEO's salary has been cut, but there has been no trickle-down effect," says Brandon Rees, the deputy director of the office of investment at the AFL-CIO, which owns shares in Citi. "Now that they are out from under the pay czar, expect 2010 numbers to...
Many developers have already slashed prices and chopped overhead, leaving little room for further cutting, notes Bob Curran, a managing director at Fitch Ratings. "It comes down to how desperate the builders and developers are to do something like this - to take 20% off the top - when many have already...
That down-to-earth attitude is the product of Kitano's working-class background. A childhood math whiz and boxer (embodying the combination of brains and brawn for which his films are famous), he dropped out of university, eventually becoming a comic and actor. He began directing films in 1989...
That's because this Pakistani frontier city, despite its large army garrison dating back to the British colonial days, had been in the grips of the Taliban's reign of fear. Nearly twice a week, they would send suicide bombers - often God-struck kids in their early teens - down from...