Word: fails
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...Warner Bros. set in Los Angeles isn't a NORAD bunker. But the similarity is no accident. When executive producer George Clooney and crew re-create Sidney Lumet's 1964 nuclear chiller Fail-Safe, with CBS execs and director Stephen Frears (High Fidelity, Dangerous Liaisons) watching nervously from a trailer outside, they'll be facing another cold war-era specter: live television. Airing at 9 p.m. E.T. (delayed P.T.), this pet project of Clooney, a longtime lover of live TV whose father Nick was a newsman and variety-show host, will be CBS's first theatrical production in 39 years...
...extremely committed," Han said of Schwartz. "What he says that he's going to do, he does without fail...
...companies that have restated their financial results since the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a clarification in December of the rules on recognizing revenues. For accounting firms, the choices are difficult. Challenge the client's bookkeeping, which Saylor insists was conservative, and you may end up without a client; fail to do so, and you face angry shareholders and their lawyers after the books are put right. PricewaterhouseCoopers, MicroStrategy's auditor, did not advise the firm that it had failed to comply with strict revenue accounting rules until the restatement...
...After meeting Zierer and five other survivors in the memorial's Hall of Remembrance, John Paul opened his heart. Recalling "friends and neighbors" who perished, he said, "Men, women and children cry out to us from the depths of the horror that they knew. How can we fail to heed their cry?" He continued, "I assure the Jewish people that the Catholic Church, motivated by the Gospel law of truth and love and by no political considerations, is deeply saddened by the hatred, acts of persecution and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews by Christians at any time...
...precisely when words fail that pictures like his are most needed. Some of them are obscene in one literal sense of that word--from ob scena, Latin for offstage--the sights to be kept from the view of the audience. In the parts of the world where Nachtwey does his work, public affairs have become not much more than a subdepartment of the larger human impulse toward bloodlust. People are regularly dismembered and disfigured. Their arms are blown off, their teeth are broken, and they are starved. "I am trying to upset people," Nachtwey said recently. "I am trying...