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Within this framework, the movie tends to toggle between two settings: hilariously broad comedy and hypnotically surreal action sequences. The former is what garnered the film’s fame in the East, and such acclaim is deserved. The characters are easily recognizable archetypes—from the tough-as-nails Landlady (Qiu Yuen) and her drunken, bumbling husband (Wah Yuen) to the sadistic, moustache-twirling mastermind (Kwok Kuen Chan)—and every actor milks them for all they’re worth...
Getting his stories from the newspapers has created a broad commentary on our political environment, which Solondz thinks is fertile ground for storytellers of all stripes, saying “if you were Stanley Kubrick and were making a movie about 9/11 you would cast George W. Bush as the president. It’s so rich that it’s almost hard to understand how people could have trouble finding ideas...
...poverty in our country, one finds in looking—and this is the kind of thing that we economists have now studied in a fair amount of detail—that you can look at the poverty population and they're basically, you can divide it into two broad categories...
...bottom line is that safe travelers can study abroad in a broad range of locales. Schools like Yale and New York University already recognize this. They ban students from traveling to dangerous areas within other countries instead of imposing blanket bans on countries themselves. The OIP and the Harvard Office of General Counsel (OGC) must either conform to these more reasonable and widely-adopted standards for international travel or provide a transparent explanation for why they will...
...less than two miles away, where the broad Paseo sweeps into Mexico City's dingy eastern suburbs, the vista was not as comforting. In small parks along the thoroughfare, about 200 drab green tents were pitched together against the early winter chill. The dwellings sheltered only a fraction of those left homeless by the quake, a total of 50,000 by government estimates, or as many as 150,000 by unofficial counts. There are no sanitary facilities in the encampment; periodically, municipal trucks distribute small plastic bags of potable water. Along with a few donated blankets, that...