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...movie, The Bridge, which premiered at this year's Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, captures a handful of jumpers as they launch themselves over the railing. His aim, Steel told the San Francisco Chronicle, was to challenge audiences to "talk and think about suicide in profoundly different ways." (Whatever its intentions, some critics have denounced it as reminiscent of a snuff film.) The film opened the same week that the bridge board got the final funding for a $2 million, two-year study into design concepts for a barrier, as well as research into a barrier's environmental...
...guide sells the gun to a goatherd, who entrusts it to his two pre-teen sons to keep jackals away from the herd. The younger son, Yussef (Boubker Ait El Caid), a better shot with a more reckless disposition, tests the rifle's shooting distance by taking thoughtless aim at a bus on the road below their mountain redoubt. He fires, critically wounding one of the tourists inside. She is Susan (Cate Blanchett), on a marriage-saving vacation with her husband Richard (Pitt). Because the couple cannot be at home in San Diego with their two young children, the kids...
...case you were confused as to where that was going. Sure he was cute and charming that night, but if someone cannot have the decency to pick up the phone and call you, you really need to just get over him. Quickly. In this age of email, AIM and facebook poking, reaching out and touching someone via telephone has almost become obsolete. Some people are just really intimidated about calling someone on the phone these days. Not that it is an excuse in this situation. But maybe if the pseudo-anonymity of AIM and email communication didn?...
...Which is to say, the press corps will take aim the instant Gore presents himself as a target. As it stands now, he has come to specialize at beating critics to the punch, perfecting a wry comic persona that manages to parody and deflect the image of the wooden know-it-all that dogged him in the 2000 campaign. For the May 13 episode of Saturday Night Live, he delivered an Oval Office speech from an alternate future, six years into a Gore administration. Global warming has been reversed, with the unfortunate consequence of precipitating a "war on glaciers...
...have no conclusions on charity—whether I should aim for efficacy or temper productivity with self-gratification. But the hassle of good works in a well-known place makes one daydream of absconding to the blissful tropics, like those bright-eyed Canadians...