• Learning from the Civil War 
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Egoism  | Every parent has to negotiate a compromise between brawling brothers. A successful marriage is not possible without compromise. With apologies to Ayn Rand, life itself would be untenable if we always acted only in our self-interest and never made any concessions.  

• •Angelina Jolie on track for ‘Atlas Shrugged’ 
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The Angelina Jolie starrer “Atlas Shrugged” may not become the ambitious trilogy initially proposed a la "Lord of the Rings" after all, reports co-executive producer Karen Baldwin "We've hired Randall Wallace [...], and he's going to revise the script, so we're letting Randy and his writing determine how many movies there will be," says Baldwin, confirming that "Angelina Jolie is attached to play Dagny," the heroine in Ayn Rand's classic 1957 novel about a powerful railroad executive determined to keep her business going while the society she lives in is falling apart.