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...Shoah fills us Germans with shame. I bow before the victims. I bow before the survivors and before all those who helped them survive.' ANGELA MERKEL, German Chancellor, using the Hebrew word for Holocaust in the third speech ever delivered in German to the Israeli parliament...
There could be one more explanation for the limited if ardent appeal of Perry's films: they're not very good. He casts some prime scene stealers--Cicely Tyson, Janet Jackson, Angela Bassett, Louis Gossett Jr., Jenifer Lewis, Maya Angelou--but rarely draws their best work from them. Most of the actors could wear tags describing their characters: work-obsessed wife, philandering husband, saucy slut, overweight sweetie, bombastic uncle ... and Madea (a conflation of Mother Dear), the wise, wisecracking granny from Heck...
...Shoah fills us Germans with shame. I bow before the victims. I bow before the survivors and before all those who helped them survive.' ANGELA MERKEL, German Chancellor, using the Hebrew word for Holocaust in the third speech ever delivered in German to the Israeli parliament...
...past 11 p.m. by the time police stop Claudio Alves's car on a dark street in Jardim Angela, one of Sao Paulo's poorest and most violent neighborhoods. Not that he'd been doing anything to arouse suspicions, just pulling out of a side street and being young. But he is so nervous that when he accidentally steps on an officer's polished boot he tries to get down on his knees and wipe off the dust...
...priorities for the police here in Jardim Angela is making themselves visible. They have reached out to the community by visiting businesses, setting up a free library in the local police station and even helping out at an orphanage. Their outreach program convinced many bars in one area to close down voluntarily after 10 p.m. and tonight, as they wind their SUVs through the dimly lit streets, they stop people as much to get to know them as search for drugs or guns. "The primordial factor here is that they don't see us as the enemy...