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Lincoln is not so much a biographical film as it is a brief portrait of a man at work.
FORBES: Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln' Lives Up To The Hype
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After 20 months as Railtrack's chief executive, Gerald Corbett seems not so much a determined visionary as a man struggling to gain control of his company.
ECONOMIST: Mending Britain��s rotten railways
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He was not just a creative powerhouse but a genuinely nice man who was much loved by all of us.
FORBES: Update on the Death of BMW VP Jack Pitney
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Alexander Lebed, the charismatic former general who ran Krasnoyarsk for four years, was a big man all right, but not much of an administrator.
ECONOMIST: The contest for control of one of Russia's richest regions
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I'm not necessarily a religious man, but I do believe in much of the wisdom from the good book, like Proverbs 12:10.
NPR: Black Men and Dogs: Don't Believe Vick
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Yes, there will be glamorous settings and a broad-shouldered Mr. Right, but the plot of the film is not so much between a woman and the perfect man but a woman and the perfect career.
FORBES: What College Women Need To Know
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Was it not so much an award to a man as it was to an idea of the leadership we have ever since needed but have yet to find?
CNN: Obama on world stage: More hope than change?
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The second is the strikingly different outcome arrived at because Virginia Woolf restrained herself from dispatching her first, intemperate draft reply and carefully modified it so as not to hurt the feelings of the young man - a family friend, very much younger and less experienced than herself.
BBC: A Point of View: Mourning the loss of the written word
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It is the cheap cloth, the cheap cotton and rayon fabric, boots, motorcars, and so on that are the typical achievements of capitalist production, and not as a rule improvements that would mean much to the rich man.
FORBES: What Would Louis XIV Have Paid for a Sonicare?
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This is actually a dance version of a suspense cue in The Man Who Knew Too Much, signifying something not only mysterious but totally unreal: the reincarnation scam perpetrated on Scottie by his college friend Gavin in a diabolical scheme to get rid of his wife.
NPR: 'Hitchcock's Music' Scores Big on Suspense
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The whole cumbersome process of getting and spending the currency invented in 2009 by a mysterious Japanese (or possibly American) man called Satashi Nakamoto convinced me of one thing - that Bitcoin was not yet much use except as a means of speculation.
BBC: The Bitcoin bubble