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...pair is a kindly and responsible woman, caught in conflict between the needs of her beloved charges and the call of a central event in her family's life. Her crisis is the more powerful for the way it takes her, unaware of the gathering threat, to the brink of madness and death. It is a measure of González Iñárritu's humanity that his protagonists are not all victims of their bad decisions. It is a measure of his potent skills as a director that he hammers home his melodrama with relentless ferocity...
...Vietnam, conservation is itself a young idea. After decades of war and isolation, the country opened its jungles up to foreign environmentalists in the 1990s, and it soon became known as a hotspot for unique species on the brink of extinction. One of the rarest is the golden-headed langur. Found on Cat Ba Island in northern Vietnam, this cliff-dwelling monkey has a population of less than...
...kids are world weary and anxiety ridden. Those domineering parents are the subject of books such as Alissa Quart's Hothouse Kids, Alexandra Robbins' The Overachievers and Madeline Levine's The Price of Privilege. Or last year's media sensation, Judith Warner's Perfect Madness, about mothers on the brink of insanity as they seek to create perfect childhoods for their tots. The affluence of those parents is never copped to; instead, these fears enter into the media bubble and get supercharged into widespread panic by the multiplying coverage...
...LEAGUE school launching a major capital campaign, on the brink of a huge campus expansion? Under different circumstances, that would be Harvard this school year. Instead, it now describes two rivals unencumbered by administrative upheaval: Columbia and Yale...
...talk-show host acquires a political following). An incipient fascism sweeps the English motorways from one deracinated mall-town to another. If Kingdom Come has a flaw, it's dialogue that sounds like a lecture on social theory. To liven things up, Ballard marches his shoppers to the brink of armed apocalypse, and he displays an attention to detail that can lull you into suspending disbelief. Especially if you have traveled the new English landscape of soccer thugs, superstores and paved-over villages where, as Pearson says of Brooklands, "it was impossible to borrow a book, attend a concert...