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...plot. Grace (Nicole Kidman) arrives in Dogville on the run from some unnamed danger. The villagers take her in and then turn on her. The ending shocks and leaves the audience full of questions, which von Trier presumably will answer in the rest of the trilogy, albeit without Kidman as the lead...
...spite of its numerous failures, the United States’ Iraq endeavor has recently produced a notable—albeit unexpected—union of traditionally opposed Shi’a and Sunni Muslims. Instead of being treated as liberators, American troops have become the common enemy for everyone in Iraq except for the reliably pro-U.S. Kurds in the North. The country’s main sects have come together in shared hatred for the U.S. occupation. Indeed, in the face of brutal mutilations of American civilians in the Sunni triangle and the unexpected success of insurgencies...
...workers in new factories like Venus Jewel are adult, and the work environment is comfortable and well lit, albeit pervaded by paranoia. Closed-circuit cameras monitor many parts of the factory, and S.P. Shah, whose family owns Venus Jewel, sits in front of four screens and watches obsessively. Although the industry is rife with rumors that workers are locked in factories if diamonds go astray, Shah denies that his own employees are ill treated. "If a stone goes missing," he says, "we try and persuade the workers to give it back, and this usually works...
...each of the victories for Harvard (2-0), the Big Red finished second, albeit a distant second in the third varsity, 15.2 seconds off the pace...
Christine M. Murray ’04, coordinator of the New York service trip, acknowledges that the application process is imperfect. Even so, she contends that the brief interview serves as a useful, albeit incomplete, indicator. “It does say something about how committed, enthusiastic and flexible [an applicant] is,” she says. “I hope that the limited number of spots motivates others to propose and lead ASB trips of their...