If we do -- if we keep their legacy alive, if we keep faith with the freedoms they died to defend -- then we can imagine a day, decades from now, when another child sits down at his desk, ponders the true meaning of heroism and finds inspiration in the story of a soldier -- Staff Sergeant Robert J.

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True, the market finds only a small (but rising) minority of all the bosses appointed each year.

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Happily, the leads carry the day: James Marsden as a prince of grinning vanity, Susan Sarandon as the wicked stepmother (although the climax turns her into something else, again unnecessarily), and, above all, Amy Adams, who, in the role of a would-be princess, finds true momentum, not just sappiness, in the farce of innocence.

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It finds that this is not true across the whole of society and that in other ways Northern Ireland has been moving towards a more tolerant and peaceful society.

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Never having aspired to be a true designer before her brother's tragic death, she finds herself the star of the frenzied show on the day of her second couture presentation.

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Dolorean isn't known for looking on the bright side: The best song from 2003's Not Exotic, "Hannibal, MO" (audio), finds singer Al James sitting in a prison cell as he deconstructs the events leading to his true love's death.

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This is true for trivial as well as important matters, because even trivial information that finds its way from the boardroom to the press corrodes trust among directors.

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