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...mistress Vellini (Asia Argento). The film is mostly a flashback relating their affair. Like many movies once upon a time, and few today, An Old Mistress approaches romantic passion with a voluptuous seriousness. The Cannes audience giggled at some of the more intense scenes - as when Ryno has a bullet removed from his chest and Vellini avidly licks the wound. To each his own eroticism...
...Forget bullet trains. The U.S. is decades behind global standards and will need $250 billion over 20 years to catch...
...system—except for all the others. If grade inflation was a clear problem and there were fair and compelling ways to reduce grades without harming the undergraduate experience, we would hardly mind having fewer A’s on our transcripts. Until someone finds such a silver bullet, however, we’ll take the status...
...ACLU filed a petition for Padilla's release, arguing that as an American citizen captured on U.S. soil, he had to be let go or charged and tried in a civilian court. In December 2003, a federal appeals court in New York agreed, but then the government dodged a bullet: the Supreme Court ruled that Padilla's petition should have been filed in South Carolina, not New York...
...Bush Administration, and they might be able to turn their election campaign into a referendum on the future. Bush won't be on the ballot--though Democrats will try to wrap him around the neck of the G.O.P. nominee. But that nominee might be able to dodge that bullet, combining strong Commander in Chief credentials with enough of a message of change. There is current evidence that this won't be impossible: as of now, Giuliani and McCain run even with to slightly ahead of Clinton and Obama in the polls...