Michelle Ryan being less ambitious about her career. "I'm more go-with-the-flow now", she said. On Red Nose Day 2007, Ryan appeared in a brand new "Mr. Bean" sketch written and recorded for "Comic Relief". In May 2007, Ryan revealed she had auditioned the previous year for the role of Vesper Lynd in "Casino Royale", eventually given to Eva Green. In late 2007, she appeared in "Flick", a Welsh independent film co-starring Faye Dunaway and Leslie Phillips. Prior to "Bionic Woman", she appeared in "Jekyll" for the BBC, a modern-day version of "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" starring James Nesbitt.
Staughton Lynd "Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism," which came under severe criticism. Writing in the "New York Review of Books", Marxist professor Eugene Genovese called the book a "travesty of history" and Lynd an "ideologue". Yale denied Lynd tenure, and he became unemployable in academia. Lynd relocated his family to Chicago. There, he struggled to make a living from community organizing. Meanwhile, he and his wife, Alice, embarked upon an oral history project dealing with the working class. The conclusions of this work, titled "Rank and File", inspired Lynd to study law in order to assist workers victimized by companies and left