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...self-destructive bout with drugs and depression. Paul Rivers (Sean Penn) is always seconds away from cardiac failure and he desperately clings to any hope for life even as he takes long, painful drags from countless cigarettes. Then there’s Jack Jordan (Benicio del Toro), an ex-con whose fanatical love for Jesus—an obsession which reformed his criminal ways—will be challenged by the car crash. The lives of all three characters will converge at both a physical and emotional level, yielding brutally frank glimpses at death and the toll it exacts from...
...Poland, confiscating €200,000 in fake notes. Investigations continue in all these countries, and police say new operations have sprung up in Lithuania, Moldova and Belarus. Counterfeiters have started operating in Western Europe as well. Just two weeks ago police in Marseilles detained a 43-year-old ex-con on suspicion of printing some 30,000 fake €50 and €100 bills that were ready for distribution. The largest bust since the advent of the euro took place in October in Italy, where finance police north of Naples seized nearly €1 million worth of bogus...
...prefer is characterized by direct, project-based advocacy or service provision, which appeals to those who feel directly affected, implicated or otherwise impelled to action on particular issues of social justice. By contrast, the more traditional (and apparently more legitimate) political activities favored more by campus men emphasize pro-con debate, pizza and prominent guest speakers. It sounds like fun, but this organized head-scratching is a luxury afforded to those whose political concerns are less urgent...
...dunces unearthed? Americans make temptingly large targets for satire these days--what with the chronic obesity and all--but I'll be double-dog-darned if we're quite this easy to skewer. Pierre may have come clean about his past, but Vernon God Little feels like just another con. --By Lev Grossman
...terms of the piece itself, the Largo was particularly well-played, with the winds, brass, and strings producing a wonderful coherence; the cellos carried off the honors, with strong full tones that exploited the piece’s melodic qualities. The ending movement, Allegro con spirito, displayed excellent spiccato work by all of the ensemble and furnished the piece with a truly robust finish...