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...topped the Olympics medal list with an impressive total of 101. The term dominance has been casually applied. A more telling comparison of sporting achievement would be a "power rating" of countries--medals in relation to population. On this fairer basis (medals per 10 million people), the Top 10 Olympic countries were Jamaica (with 23.4), Cuba, Australia, Hungary, New Zealand, Bulgaria, Norway, Trinidad and Tobago, Belarus and the Netherlands. In this ranking, the U.S. stands 36th among the 57 countries that won more than one medal. A power rating would show the true athletic achievement of many smaller countries. ROBERT...
...comparison, Lo comes across as unreasonably paranoid: throwing Elaine aside and cursing like a sailor. She isn't helped by having to toss off artificial-sounding lines about remembering who's in charge with regard to the kidnaping. And it is Lo who moves the plot along, where Manny would be content with looking at lizards...
...cease getting furious at Hollywood for mangling great novels and instead allow a movie version to stand on its own. This season's Austen fare, "Emma," adapted and directed by Douglas McGrath, borrows the book's social satire, but unwisely replaces its canny ironic bite with what in comparison resembles absurd slapstick. We can enjoy the product of this limited adaptation--funny, outrageously decorated--but it's anything but great Austen...
...difficult to resist comparison with the book, it's also a challenge not to remember another recent attempt at putting "Emma" on the big screen: "Clueless," resplendent with Beverly Hills bird-brains. Some logic might dictate that "Clueless" changes the locale and pace of the novel so radically--Emma would say "Whatever" only if followed by a four-line sentence sprinkled with semi-colons--that it couldn't possibly be a more loyal version. But where "Clueless" successfully looked to a new world ripe for the axing, McGrath's "Emma" creates an uncomfortable mix by updating an old world with...
...Atlanta bomb was not Munich 1972, which was Black September's awful masterpiece. By comparison, Atlanta was amateur night. But Atlanta came in the immediate aftermath of TWA Flight 800, and close enough in history to Oklahoma City, to leave in Americans' minds a conviction, developing like a Polaroid picture, that their nation is somehow in the process of losing whatever may be left of its old immunity. For a long time, Americans have nervously congratulated themselves that terror was an evil native to other lands. The complacent thought picked up, almost unconsciously, on the founding American premise...