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Hillen likes to quote an old professor of his. "The United States should recall historian Sir Michael Howard's three rules for intervening in civil wars," he says. "First, do not. Second, if you do, pick a side. Third, pick the side that will win and make sure that it does." Flaunting those rules, NATO began to see last week, could become costly...
...scruff, drawling out punch lines so you don't hear the rim shot, anchoring a film with enough weirdos to populate a Preston Sturges comedy. It's odd that this movie, not a star vehicle, should allow him to radiate star quality, and that's due in part to Howard's gift with actors. But it's more about this actor's sure connection with the character and the camera, and through them, the mass of moviegoers. Here he plays a man with the resources to handle unearned fame. Now McConaughey has earned his own fame...
Maybe Don Ohlmeyer was right. Even though Norm Macdonald was funny on Saturday Night Live and is great when guesting on Howard Stern or David Letterman, it turns out the guy isn't always so entertaining. After Ohlmeyer, NBC's West Coast president, fired him from the anchor desk at SNL's "Weekend Update" last year, Macdonald made the disastrous film Dirty Work. And now this...
...specimen of Fleming's mold made its way into the hands of a team of scientists at Oxford University led by Howard Florey, an Australian-born physiologist. This team had technical talent, especially in a chemist named Ernst Boris Chain, who had fled Nazi Germany. Armed with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, these scientists made it their objective to identify and isolate substances from molds that could kill bacteria. The mission was inspired by the earlier work of Gerhard Domagk, who in 1935 showed that the injection of a simple compound, Prontosil, cured systemic streptococcal infections. This breakthrough demonstrated that...
...British archaeologist Howard Carter opens the tomb of Tutankhamun, a little-known pharaoh who died...