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Perhaps we is the wrong pronoun. Maybe you would be more appropriate. Because not for a moment did I think Nicholson or Payne--an Omaha native--would betray Schmidt's essence. The director, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jim Taylor, understands that lives like Schmidt's are composed of incidents that cannot, must not, be forced into confrontation. Payne also understands what it has taken me most of a lifetime to comprehend: that the Schmidts of this world are not to be easily dismissed. Payne did that brilliantly in Election a few years back. Here he's after something...
...Stevens ’03 returned home over the holiday break to find that all his old friends have become either borderline drug addicts or born-again Christians. Seeking to find a happy medium, Stevens has begun proselytizing while high. “Jesus, was, like, the original Jim Morrison,” he whispered gravely...
...began to get worried after she told me she was ‘trizzashed,’ whatever that means,” said one College administrator. “I also wondered why she left five messages on my emergency cell phone announcing that Jose Cuervo, Jack Daniels, Jim Bean and Tanqueray No. 10 would be our biggest donors. I haven’t met those particular seniors, but she seemed to know them pretty darn well.” Filney was later spotted cashing checks made out to the College Fund at Central Square’s Supreme...
...Roof Inns. The camouflage unit of Valmont Industries, based in Omaha, Neb., received a request for a 115-ft. saguaro cactus, which would have been triple the plant's natural height. "You'd turn around and run if you saw something like that," says the company's tree specialist, Jim Casqueiro. The solution: split the coverage area and build two 50-footers instead...
...cheapest stealth design, a stocky flagpole with room inside for antennas, accounts for roughly half the camouflage market and adds $10,000 to $20,000 to the price of a tower. Trees cost double or triple that amount. "You pretty much blow your profit margins on camouflage," says Jim Fryer, the industry's chief data tracker, who runs TowerSource.com "But if you can close the deal and not have to go through another year of zoning battles, it's probably worth...