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...pondering in his study, he stomps his feet to trace his line of thought. When he is cursing Merlyn (Herman Petras) for never teaching him how to handle a woman, he twitches in anger. And when he is telling Davie that he wants to be “the wisest, most heroic, most splendid king who ever sat on any throne,” the audience believes...
...furs, Cera can't stop Year One from being a bad movie, but he does save it from being a catastrophe. He plays Oh, an inept gatherer who is best friends with an even more inept hunter named Zed (Jack Black). They're kicked out of their village - the wisest act committed in that community since the decision to rub two sticks together - and proceed to travel through a greatest hits of early religious history, culminating in a trip to Sodom...
...Trying to meet that ambitious goal in such a short time frame may make it hard for lawmakers to make the wisest policy choices. Though advocates say that fixing the health system promises big savings over the long haul, it will take some big, up-front investments - in technology and preventive care, for instance - whose benefits will not begin to take effect for years. And most of the savings will accrue not to the Federal Government - whose direct costs for health care are felt largely through the Medicare and Medicaid programs - but to the economy writ large, where health care...
...thought that letting people focus on federal funds applications this semester, but retaining a seed grant program, would be the wisest policy,” Hyman said...
...fearless, courageous, the consummate professional,” said Des Forges’ colleague Georgette Gagnon, director of Human Rights Watch’s Africa division. “She was the kind of person who would in any situation have the smartest and wisest decision on the course of action to be taken.” In her time at Human Rights Watch, Des Forges spent four years interviewing the victims of the Rwanda genocide and provided expert witness testimony before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Despite the seriousness of her work, Gagnon said Des Forges always maintained...