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What prevents Barbarians from being truly outstanding is Garner's miscasting plus Gelbart's reluctance to pull the trigger on the conniving Johnson. Example: in one scene, the born-to-shop Dr. Cupcake tells Ross a heart- wrenching story about her leg waxer's cousin, who was dumped from his job of 18 years when KKR took over his company. Seeking to illustrate the human carnage of leveraged buyouts, she informs hubby that the man went home and shot himself. Johnson looks concerned. Here, the film is taking real liberties with the truth. This conversation did not take place anywhere...
...power has become the most flagrantly disregarded provision in the Constitution. There have always been debates over the extent of the President's authority to respond to unexpected emergencies. But the real erosion began after World War II. During the cold war era, there were claims that the hair-trigger nuclear stalemate made the notion of consulting Congress obsolete. From Vietnam through the invasion of Panama, there were arguments about what was and was not a "war." In the 1980s the issue was usually whether Congress was trying to "micromanage" foreign-policy issues short of actually sending in the troops...
...reference to the protectionist 1930 U.S. tariff that crippled the world trading system. Under Bush, says one of his former economic advisers, "the Europeans and Japanese knew that if they held out long enough, we wouldn't retaliate in any serious way, out of fear that we might trigger another escalation of trade barriers like...
Once conditions are right, it doesn't take much to trigger a slide. And usually, there is very little warning. "Sometimes you hear a crack like thunder," says U.S. Forest Service research scientist Sue Ferguson, who has been caught in several small slides. "Sometimes the avalanche releases quietly, like rustling silk." Traveling at speeds that can exceed 80 m.p.h., the rushing snowpack compresses the air at its prow, generating a wind blast strong enough to smash windows and hurl skiers into trees. Once the avalanche stops, the snow mass solidifies, entombing its victims in an icy grip...
...skiers who stick to groomed runs, avalanches pose little hazard. Most major ski resorts operate military-style control programs that rely on explosive charges to trigger slides on avalanche-prone slopes before skiers head for the lifts. But increasingly, skiers are stepping beyond the boundaries set by resorts -- prompted in part by long lift lines and the high cost of lift tickets as well as the thirst for adventure. "What they don't realize," says Dale Atkins, who forecasts avalanches for the state of Colorado, "is that once they cross under that quarter-inch rope, they've gone from...