The last time we took any note of Roland Joffe, the director of "The Mission" and "The Killing Fields," it was through his take on the ugly genre "torture porn" titled "Captivity" back in 2007. To be fair, he followed that up with the lesbian murder mystery "You and I," which even fewer people saw. He's back in theaters and back in the world of period pieces with "There Be Dragons," a Spanish Civil War tale that tells the story of the controversial founder of the Catholic Opus Dei organization. It's an odd but ambitious choice and a muddled and unsatisfying film -- "Doctor Zhivago" without the majesty, "Reds" without the passion or romance.
Andrew M. Cuomo begins his second year as governor today with a State of the State address that will be less ambitious than when he took office in 2011. But that, he insists, is only because he and the State Legislature accomplished so much last year.
The Capitol Theatre is undergoing renovation and so is one of its primary tenants, the Yakima Symphony Orchestra, which opens its 2010- 2011 season later this month with an ambitious schedule and its first new conductor in 42 years. Lawrence Golan, winner of a public selection process earlier this year to replace YSO founding conductor Brooke Creswell, starts off with the appropriately named "New Beginnings" program Sept. 18. He'll follow that with three more full-orchestra classical performances, two chamber orchestra programs and two pops concerts - - something new to Yakima.
The authors devise an "ambition-adjusted" journal ranking based on citations from a short list of top general-interest journals in economics. Underlying this ranking is the notion that an ambitious economist wishes to be acknowledged not only in the highest reaches of the profession, but also outside his or her subfield. In addition to the conceptual advantages that they find in their ambition adjustment, they see two main practical advantages: greater transparency and a consistent treatment of sub fields. They compare their 2008 ranking based on citations from 2001 to 2007 with a ranking for 2002 based on citations from 1995 to 2001.
Billings will soon receive a significant boost in money earmarked for tourism and event promotion with the creation of a citywide tourism business improvement district, which levies a surcharge of 75 cents per night on all Billings hotel and motel rooms.
Eight years ago, Phill Kline used an anti-abortion crusade to win the Republican nomination for Kansas attorney general and the office itself. For four years, his crusade took center stage in Topeka, as many of the AG's core responsibilities -- such as consumer affairs - - fell by the wayside. In 2006, the voters handed him a resounding defeat, and the office returned to a more ordinary operation, where actual criminal and civil litigation took center stage. Kline was highly ideological and highly ambitious -- a dangerous combination. His ambitions increasingly took the shape of a crusade against abortion providers and abortion itself. His sense of personal righteousness became so great it overwhelmed any balance in carrying out his duties as the state's chief legal officer. Although a...
David J. Nasca, president of Evans Bancorp, outlined an ambitious growth strategy in his annual letter to shareholders released this week. The bank is preparing to announce its 14th Western New York branch, to open late this year, followed by another in early 2012, Nasca wrote.
There has never been a time more than now when the city of Memphis needs to make investments that expand our economy. The challenge is to identify game-changing projects and make them happen without adding to the burden of our taxpayers. That is exactly what we are doing with our Pyramid/Pinch District Redevelopment Project - which includes transforming The Pyramid into destination retail and creating a retail center in the Pinch Historic District - and the redevelopment of the former Mid-South Fairgrounds. Both projects are parts of our ambitious "City of Choice" agenda for Memphis, which is pursuing a series of strategies that will strengthen our neighborhoods and our economic centers.
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