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...around grotesque human caricatures, and into a surreal world that is both futuristic and strangely ancient. Shot entirely in the studio, the film sports some of the most incredible sets in recent memory. Often enhanced by computer imaging, the whole setting has an eerie pre-fabricated feel that is akin to today's high-tech electronic games. The influence of Terry Gilliam is apparent, since the style of visuals is reminiscent of the optical wackiness in Brazil, Time Bandits, and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen...
...calling attention to two of these in its letter writing campaign. The first concerns web browsers, such as Netscape. These providers could block access to pages they deemed violent or racist. As private companies, they could offer services to the public that simply excluded certain options. This would be akin to a cable company's refusing to offer the Playboy channel as part of its package...
...fellows include Anne Marie Codur, a graduate student from France, Francosse Ghorayeb, a graduate student from Lebanon; Narendra Gupta, a government employee from India; Akin Jimoh a reporter from Nigeria; and Lon Leonard and Margaret Luck, graduate students at the Harvard School of Public Health...
...HEAR U.S. PROSECUTORS TELL IT, the stunts that Japan's Daiwa Bank used to conceal the nefarious conduct of its Manhattan office might have come from The Sting. The end result, however, was more akin to the farcical Dumb and Dumber. Among the flagrant ruses employed by Daiwa, prosecutors said, was disguising a downtown trading floor as a nondescript storage room during audits by Federal Reserve regulators. But no sooner had the Feds left than the traders reappeared--led by Toshihide Iguchi. It was his dual role as chief bond trader and bookkeeper that ultimately brought the bank to grief...
Perhaps I overstate the case. To believe many of the learned heads who have already gone on the record about the Rabin execution, there are fringe elements in Israel as there are fringe elements in the United States. The Rabin assassination, on this logic, becomes something akin to the Oklahoma City bombing--a gruesome reminder that there are extremists out there somewhere who are willing to shed their compatriots' blood to drive home their own idiosyncratic political agendas...