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...effect, even if it sometimes feels like a staged reading of a new play that is still a revision away from completion.) Carnegie, along with Lizzy and precocious nine-year-old Wendy, is quick to fall under Lan's spell. They love her cooking and hang on Lan's bitter horror stories of life during the Cultural Revolution. As Lan insinuates herself into the family, she seems not to be usurping Blondie so much as taking her rightful place, exactly as Blondie feared. She watches Lan with Carnegie and Lizzy and Wendy, and finds a scene more natural than...
...current controversy comes two years after Summers, in his first year as president, engaged in a bitter public dispute with West that garnered national attention and ended with West’s leaving Harvard for Princeton. Since then, the Af-Am Department has seen the ranks of both its faculty and students thinned, as Appiah joined West at Princeton and the number of Af-Am concentrators steadily declined from 31 students in the 1999-2000 academic year to 11 last year...
...into his followers," says Eichinger. "I believe that in every one of us there is something very, very dangerous. Every human being has a side that is bestiality. It was very important to put this in the movie." So the film shows young boys fighting the Russians to the bitter end and civilian vigilantes roaming the city and killing people who they felt had given up on the cause. Eichinger says the Holocaust didn't feature in his screenplay because the documentary record indicated it wasn't discussed in the bunker. But at the end of the movie, he includes...
After a protracted debate over zoning regulations, the locals, tired of the parade of armor-plated Mercedes clogging their streets, have forced the retailer to pack its Louis Vuitton cases. If Tranchesi is bitter, she's far too preoccupied by Daslu's brand-new five-story building in Vila Olimpia, a commercial district, to show it. The new flagship will boast a champagne bar, a Japanese restaurant and even a real estate bureau, where clients can find pieds-a-terre in Miami and Rome. Pampered customers are waited on by the daughters of politicians and plutocrats, known as Dasluzetes...
...years after President Clinton signed the assault weapons ban, which had extensive bipartisan support, the bill has met a quiet and bitter end under a new president and a new Congress. The bill had applied to weapons including the AK-47, Kalashnikov and Uzi rifles, as well as guns with certain combinations of features such as a pistol grip, folding or telescoping stock, and others. The weapons may be available for purchase—and back on the streets—by the end of the week...