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Before moving to the sunny streets of Hollywood and directing big-budget films such as “The Last Samurai” and “Blood Diamond,” Edward Zwick ’74 cultivated his interest in film on the slightly less sunny streets of...
Will it strut or stumble? When U.S. forces began to pull out of Baghdad and into suburban bases in 2005, the vacuum was filled by al-Qaeda bombers and armed Shi'ite and Sunni militants, who fought a two-year civil war. Now, however, the main vectors of sectarian violence...
For me it was learning to not control everything. When you're directing, of course, you're supervising everything, but if you don't trust the artists you're collaborating with, you wind up tying one of their hands behind their back. My work got much, much better when I...
There is one primary difference between the current crop of crooked executives and those of Kozlowski’s “generation.” The earlier set, today imprisoned, stole money out of largely stable companies for their own personal use. Today’s top guns learned...
If parties and politicians learned one thing from 2000, it's that they ought to be ready for recounts. To that end, it's typical for candidates to send advance teams of lawyers to precincts and states where the vote is expected to be close. The idea is that the...