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Truth be told, Branagh does not seem quite fitting for the role. While he executes Shakespeare with finesse and a startling accessibility, his chubby-cheeked, doughy countenance is a mismatch for the role. True, he manages to convey the youth of Henry but when the role demands the handsome, strong-jaw-boned fierceness of a young firebrand, he is somewhat limited by the wimpiness of his looks. In spite of these handicaps, however, he admirably manages to convince us of his common humanity--he is one with his men and his dedication to Mother England...
...auctioneers did their best at spin control afterward, but some spins are uncontrollable, and this is one. "There was an obvious mismatch," said Diane Upright of Christie's to the New York Times, "between sellers' expectations and the buyers or potential buyers who were looking for bargains...
...That mismatch is sadly typical: most trainees end up with a fancy certificate but no decent job. Just last month, a Labor Department study found that only 20% of about 1,200 people who received training under a federal program for dislocated workers got a job paying at least 80% of their old wage or salary...
...mismatch opens a stretch of four races in 11 days for the varsity, which won the national championship in 1991. First up is Navy, this weekend on the Charles...
Even counting prospective G-7 aid, the mismatch between needs and means is every bit as great for Russia. German economists estimate it will cost $100 billion a year for a full decade to bring living standards in the former East Germany up to 75% of those prevailing in the western part of the country. Russia has about 10 times the population of eastern Germany, and had a much less developed economy to begin with. On a straight mathematical projection, the size of the aid program needed to produce even a measurable and sustained rise in Russian standards of living...