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...Here's another collision of cultures: chaotic modern Africa and the Europeans who once raped the continent and now, with toxic tests administered by a large pharmaceutical company, don't seem to mind killing it off. A British diplomat (super-pensive Ralph Fiennes) learns that his crusading bride (Rachel Weisz) has been killed on a trip into the bush, and goes searching for keys to her murder. Meirelles expands the scope of the John Le Carr? source novel out of the European compound and into Kenyan villages and plains. This Brazilian director, who also found a place...
...past decade, most recently when he was invited, with Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, to debate CSR with Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey in the October issue of Reason magazine. Rodgers assailed the CSR-imbued philosophy that guides Whole Foods, calling it similar to those of Karl Marx and Ralph Nader. Mackey, an avowed libertarian, replied that his approach has brought a lot more wealth for Whole Foods' investors than the one embraced at Cypress, which, he noted, has struggled to be profitable. Indeed, though Cypress made a small profit in 2004, it booked losses in the three previous years...
...aspect of this push is in video games, a media particularly linked to unholy behavior.THE GAMING PULPIT“Ominous Horizons” is the newest title from N’Lightning Software Development Inc., a Christian company started in 1999.The idea for N’Lightning came when Ralph D. Bagley, its President—a self-described “hardcore gamer since the days of ‘Pong’ and ‘Pac-Man’”—tired of playing games in which “Satan...
DIED. FANNY MCCONNELL ELLISON, 93, writer and founding director in 1938 of Chicago's Negro People's Theater, who was acknowledged by many--including her husband Ralph Ellison--to be a key editor and adviser on his 1952 masterpiece, Invisible Man; in New York City. The couple, who were married from 1946 until his death in 1994, met after Fanny told a mutual friend, poet Langston Hughes, that she wanted to meet a man with an interest in books...
...said as the crowd erupted in laughter.Frank also wondered whether moderate Republicans would ever break from their party, adding that they always stuck to the party line on important votes, only voting with Democrats when the stakes were low. He accused John McCain of being very conservative and Ralph Nader of being a “pain in the ass” who took away 3 million votes in the 2000 election.Frank said the Republicans had the aim of “exacerbating inequality.” He accused them of wanting to destroy unions and Social Security, describing...