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"Ah, that’s the great puzzle."
Ten episodes in, four more to go. With the silly season of television finales straight ahead, everything seems to be falling into place for Lost’s three-part (!!!) end-of-season blowout following the most recent installment, entitled "Something Nice Back Home". Which is nice to see, because I’m not falling into place - a lot is going on with university at the moment, so you’re getting a concise and mostly jumbled recap this week. Let’s make with the quickness, then!
1. Jate is fate (but it’s also doomed from the start)
So, there we have it - Kate chose Jack.
But, seeing as this is Lost, it’s never ever that simple, seeing how Jack didn’t choose Kate. Jack, as always, ended up choosing Jack in his off-island life. What I mean by this is that Jack couldn’t really live a proper, satisfied life, plagued incessantly by both his time on the island and his soul-crushing relationship with his Drinky Doctor Dad (trademarks pending). Watch his face when he’s asking Kate for her hand in marriage - it seems as if he wants her to say yes just so someone will want to keep him about, as if he’s marrying for a sense of his own security. And his only way to get out of this conundrum… well, we saw the results of it in "Through the Looking Glass".
Y’see, Jack Shephard is very much a quintessential 21st Century Man. On the outside, he’s both an example of masculinity and honesty; the problem is he’s never really been honest with anyone other than himself, keeping everything stored on the inside. That’s why he thinks he knows best by watching his own appendix get removed (which was… yechhh). That’s why he has a massive savior complex. In the off-island future, he could have easily told Kate about his fears concerning his father - hell, any of the fears he has - but he ends up alone and back where he started. When he shouts "we have to go back!" to Kate in the season three finale, you can hear it in his voice, see it in his eyes: the man just wants to be wanted.

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BECCLES. Methodist and United Reformed Church, Hungate: Blood donor sessions, 2-3.30pm and 5-7pm.
LOWESTOFT. Kirkley Centre, London Road South: Gingerbread lone parent group, phone for details 01502 538384/508265, 9.30am-12.30pm.
South Lowestoft Methodist Church, corner London Road South/Carlton Road: Social coffee morning in the large hall, call in for a friendly chat and a cuppa and biscuits and view the bookstall. At 10am there will be 20 minutes of prayers in the Oasis Room, all welcome, 10-11.30am.
Tenants Hall, opp Hollingsworth Road Shops: Fresh produce co-op, Credit Union collection point, teas, coffee, 1-3pm.
Over 60s Club, Clapham Road: Whist drive, all welcome, 1.15pm 50p,
Deaf Centre, Blackheath Road: Body Shop evening, raffle and refreshments, 7.30pm.
HALESWORTH. The Cut, New Cut: Black Shuck: The Musical - Mouth to Mouth Theatre Company, 7.30pm £10/concs £6/family concs available , 0845 673 2123.
LOWESTOFT. Marina Theatre, The Marina: Dad’s Army - The Lost Episodes, 7.30pm £20.50-£24.50/concs £20.50-£23.50, 01502 533200.
OULTON brOAD. St Mark’s Church: Great Yarmouth Brass Band concert on behalf of HeartCare, 7 for 7.30pm £5, 01502 569512.
CARLTON COLVILLE. Uplands Community Centre, Ashburnham Way: East Coast Liners split floor fun night, advanced beginners and intermediates 7.30-9.30pm £3.50, 01502 562953.
GILLINGHAM. Village Hall: Ballroom and Latin, intermediates 7.15pm £3.50, beginners 8.30pm £3, 01508 520850.
OULTON. Community Centre: Line dance to Crazy Legs, 10.30am-12.30pm, 01493 669155.
BECCLES. Quaker Hall, Smallgate: Beccles Country Market, 9.30-11am.
LOWESTOFT. Artspaces Studio and Gallery, Old Market Plain, St Peter’s Street: Studios open, 10am-4pm.
Lowestoft Arts Centre, Triangle Market Place: Artist of the month Bernie Ward, paintings with a transport theme. Drop in and draw, part of Waveney Revels, put your drawing paper on the easel, 10am-4pm.
SOUTHWOLD. Buckenham Galleries, High Street: Abstract gesso paintings by Susan Gunn, oil paintings by Mandy Davies-Kent and bronze sculptures by Susan Anderson, 10am-5pm (to May 21).

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JULIET REVEALS SOME STARTLING NEWS TO JIN ABOUT SUN,AND SAYID AND DESMOND BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND THE FREIGHTER’SMISSION WHEN THEY MEET THE SHIP’S CAPTAIN, ON ABC’S “LOST”
“Ji Yeon” Juliet is forced to reveal some startling news to Jin when Sun threatens to move to Locke’s camp. Meanwhile, Sayid and Desmond begin to get an idea of the freighter crew’s mission when they meet the ship’s Captain, on “Lost,” THURSDAY, MARCH 13 (9:00-10:02 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.
“Lost” stars Naveen Andrews as Sayid, Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond, Emilie de Ravin as Claire, Michael Emerson as Ben, Matthew Fox as Jack, Jorge Garcia as Hurley, Josh Holloway as Sawyer, Daniel Dae Kim as Jin, Yunjin Kim as Sun, Evangeline Lilly as Kate, Elizabeth Mitchell as Juliet, Terry O’Quinn as Locke and Harold Perrineau as Michael.
Guest starring are Sam Anderson as Bernard, Jeremy Davies as Daniel Faraday, Rebecca Mader as Charlotte Lewis, Jeff Fahey as Frank Lapidus, Kevin Durand as Keamy, Marc Vann as doctor, Grant Bowler as Captain Gault, Lanny Joon as Dr. Bae, Simon Rhee as shopkeeper, Zoe Bell as Regina, Christine Kim as admitting nurse, Lynette Garces as another nurse, David Yew as Chinese security agent and George Kee Cheung as Chinese ambassador.

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Bank of Montreal announced a series of management changes in its capital-markets operation this week. Yvan Boudreau, the 62-year-old former chief executive of the division, who has been at the bank for 38 years, becomes a vice-chairman, while former co-president Tom Milroy becomes chief executive, and the other co-president, Eric Tripp, becomes president.
“These changes maintain our strong leadership team and position us well for the future as we push ahead with our aggressive agenda,” said Bill Downe, BMO chief executive.
The changes were made without the jobs being advertised. If BMO, the country’s oldest bank (it goes back to 1817), did decide to advertise Boudreau’s position in, say, The Economist, the advertisement may have included some of the following:
WANTED: A senior banker who has spent many years in one organization, is looking for a great opportunity and is willing to move to Toronto, Canada. The position is also suited for a banker who wants a few more years at the trough before being put out to pasture completely. The position is ideally suited for a senior banker who loves to tell lots of stories over lunch because you will be doing lots of lunches over the next couple of years.
QUALIFICATIONS: The banker must have demonstrated great managerial skills in overseeing the work of a global operation, which operates largely in North America. In addition to the regular menu of corporate and investment-banking activities, the banker must have a nominal understanding of derivatives, complex trading strategies and structures that have the potential to blow up at any time, despite the publicly declared view that there is no risk because everything is hedged. In short, we are after a person who is prepared to go big, indeed, an executive who will bet the farm. There is no downside.
EXPERIENCE: The banker must have shown a demonstrated competence to manage upwards. We are after a survivor. It also helps if the banker can deal with change, such as working in an organization that has cut more than 1,000 positions over the past year, especially if those positions are much lower-paid and are in what has been referred to as “non-customer-facing areas.”
SPECIAL TALENTS: Extra consideration will be given to those bankers whose group has lost more than $1.5-billion over the past year. It helps if those losses were in different parts of the capital-markets area as proof that bad luck with disastrous consequences can happen to any executive at any time.
COMPENSATION: We will pay a generous compensation package consisting of salary, bonus, stock, stock options and other perks. Typically, the salary is low, about $300,000 (or 10 times the salary of the average teller) a year, but we more than make it up in bonus, equity and pension service. Over the past three years, we paid out almost $18-million to the occupant. We call it the 1% plus rule: We pay out, over three years, a percentage of the write-offs incurred by the division. It is an incentive for management to perform — even if the shareholders hate it.
CULTURE: We are proud of the corporate culture we have developed over the past 191 years. Unlike some other Canadian banks, we don’t toss our CEOs overboard at the first sign of trouble. Instead, you will become a member of the club, meaning we stick by you despite the mess.

financialpost.com