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...might think the capital of the most powerful country in the world would have the best protection of any place in the world. But you would be wrong. So many uniforms - the Capitol, Embassy, Transit and DC police - so little protection. Beset by conflicting emotions, members of Congress don't make it easy. Yes, they feel vulnerable (nursing the legitimate suspicion that the terrorists aimed for but missed them the first time), but they?re also clinging to an illegitimate sense of self-importance...
...keep grinding out meticulous, and well-nigh flawless, gangster movies; it's the genre closest to his heart. But To and Wai, who serves as writer, co-producer and co-director, don't care to be cult figures. They're in business. Movies cost money and in Hong Kong, beset by movie piracy, the brain drain and the overall artistic glums, only 5% of all films released last year earned a profit. Wai and To want to be in that 5%. So they'll make, as well as they can, anything they think the audience wants. What to artier directors...
...Washington. Mueller became chief of the U.S. Attorney's office's homicide section where his reputation as a passionate prosecutor came to the attention of Janet Reno, who in 1998 asked him to go to San Francisco to beef up the U.S. Attorney's office, which was then beset by burgeoning computer crime...
...Beset by such seemingly unstoppable forces, the future looks very dark indeed for orangutans. So dark that even a primatologist like the affable Robert Shumaker of the National Zoo in Washington, who takes evident pride in his scientific objectivity, is overwhelmed by the sheer finality of the end they face. "My wife is six months pregnant and the idea that I may have to tell my son that I saw it happen, that we let this happen, we let them just disappear...
...insufferable nebbish. An underdog so far under, so beset with frailties, neuroses and beta-male tics he made it difficult to root for him on-screen, even on those rare occasions when he got the girl or achieved some other cinematic redemption...