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...familiar Scorsese territory, most assuredly, though it's been transplanted from New York to Boston, and from Italian Catholics to Irish Catholics. The movie's title comes from a Catholic prayer for the dead - specifically, for those stranded in Purgatory, which is sort of a post-mortem car wash where the deceased have their lingering venial sins cleansed before they can get into Heaven. (The Prayer for the Souls in Purgatory, parroted thousands of times by distracted altar boys, goes like this: "Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls...
...prestigious French university Sciences Po, also expects a pick-and-choose approach toward the U.S. He spent nine months as an intern at the French consulate in Houston and came away with an indelible portrait of America's complexity. "The whole way of life - from your air-conditioned car to your air-conditioned job, then to an air-conditioned burger joint - this is the antithesis of what we want in France." But he noted that Houston, the heart of Bush country, has a Democratic mayor and a large gay population. "A lot of people there were as distraught as Europeans...
When a safety car appears in Formula One (F1) racing, it generally means there is some kind of hazard or debris on the track. Drivers must temporarily slow down, and F1 crews typically use the opportunity to bring their cars in for a pit stop. But when a safety car rolled out in the 25th lap of last year's Monaco[an error occurred while processing this directive] Grand Prix, Team McLaren Mercedes made the counterintuitive decision to keep driver Kimi Raikkonen on the track. The ploy worked; Raikkonen won. But the decision wasn't made at trackside. It came...
...Ford Just Fixed the Car" [SEPT. 18]: as a former Ford Maverick owner who remembers the gas shortages of the 1970s, I was appalled when the first SUVs rolled off the line. I was even more appalled when people started buying them. How could Ford have such a short memory and be so shortsighted at the same time? What is so hard about producing a fuel-efficient car with sleek lines that will go more than 100,000 miles without falling apart? What is so difficult about offering a 100,000-mile guarantee and 1-800 roadside assistance? Greed captured...
...History isn't supposed to repeat itself so quickly, but George W. Bush's tardy response last year to Katrina's devastation of the Gulf Coast echoed almost exactly the lethargy that enveloped the Royal Family of Britain eight years before, in the days following the car crash that killed Princess Diana. Like Bush in Crawford, the Queen stayed holed up in Balmoral, her country estate in Scotland, while her subjects, shocked by the violent death of the blond goddess whose flaws they cherished as much as her charms, sobbed their hearts out. Strange, isn't it, how the powerful...