Word: manning
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Harris' great performance has a kind of blank grimness; it contains not a single moment of charm or self-awareness. Harris never allows his exhibitions of Pollock's inexplicable gift to soften or redeem the man's monstrousness. The result is a harrowing film, impossible to "like" in any conventional way, hypnotically impossible to turn away from...
...chief has said he does not target stock prices. But he has also said stock prices have a lot to do with inflation, which he targets daily. Justin Martin, author of Greenspan: The Man Behind Money (Perseus; 284 pages; $28), neatly points out that this is "a rather too fine distinction." But he spends even less time than Woodward probing the matter and then mysteriously concludes that such a strategy wouldn't work anyway. Millions of people have come to believe that Greenspan purposely moves stock prices. They're wrong, according to both authors. Yet we get no proof...
...when your favorite band breaks up with you? The hip-hop/hard-rock quartet Rage Against the Machine has proved to be one of the most exciting bands around during its eight-year run, melding slashing guitars, rap rhythms and political fervor with unsurpassed skill. Recently, though, front man Zack de la Rocha announced plans to go solo. Rage guitarist Tom Morello says the band will continue, but he's not sure it will do so under the same name. Is there a chance de la Rocha might rejoin his mates after he gets this solo thing out of his system...
...This man...
...deal since 1993. In order to respond to Venter's challenge, for example, Collins and his allies had to persuade scientists from six countries and multiple government agencies and university-based laboratories to cooperate rather than compete. The result of those efforts--a first draft of the book of man--was to appear with Venter's work in the journal Science until it was pulled and sent to Nature in a last-minute dispute over access...