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...Premise As the summer's first major thriller, Arlington Road pits Jeff Bridges as Michael, a college professor who specializes in domestic terrorism--an interest spawned by the fact that his FBI agent wife was killed by extremists. When a new family, the Langs (Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack) move in next door and start acting suspiciously, Michael comes to suspect that his all-American neighbors may actually be terrorists. Is it simply paranoia or something much more frightening...
...complexity of Jones's character is perpetuated by the fact that the audience is never sure of her intentions. As the insurance investigator on the trail of MacDougal, she comes across as an ambitious agent in pursuit of justice. As the story progresses, though, the authenticity of this image becomes questionable. At various times, she claims that she is a thief, just like MacDougal; yet she continues to report to her boss, indicating that she is merely using her thief story to trap MacDougal. To illustrate this uncertainty, the opening scene of the movie features a heist in which...
Instead of cultivating one garden, he looks to everyone's. He protects, collects, lobbies, studies, preserves and expands his territory. He networks like a press agent but believes it is up to individuals to keep what's living living. "When it ends up," he tells me, "the world is not going to be one homogenized place. It's going to have bright spots, richer places and more beautiful places. And the reason that will happen is that individuals took responsibility and did something." As it was in the beginning, the world is a garden...
Just as FBI counterespionage agents were drawing a bead on Los Alamos nuclear weapons scientist Wen Ho Lee, the files disgorged a curious fact: Lee's wife, Sylvia, had been an FBI "informational asset" at the very time Lee was suspected of passing classified warhead data to the People's Republic of China. From 1985 to 1991, according to well-informed sources, Sylvia Lee, a native Chinese speaker who held a support-staff job at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, reported to FBI agents about visiting delegations of PRC scientists. She was not an "operational asset," jargon for paid informant...
...only bank in Korea allowed to make mortgage loans to home buyers. Lending money used to be a relaxed affair. Loan officers decided what a property was worth after a quick look at the house and a chat with the owner or a local real estate agent. Assessments were so rough that the bank could count just 30% of the assessed home value as collateral, and could only lend accordingly. The system was also open to bribery--slipping an envelope full of cash to a bank official was a good way to boost your property value, according...