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This marriage of style and content is aided immeasurably by the casting of this film. Aishwarya Rai, known in the world of Indian cinema as the Queen of Bollywood, plays Lalita, imbuing her character with the perfect self-conscious and defensive quality of someone being put up on display. Conversely, Martin Henderson, who plays Will Darcy, looks startlingly like Christian Bale’s Patrick Bateman from American Psycho, giving the character just the right sense of a healthy, wealthy, pampered and somewhat wooden American playboy...
...Because it's cheaper to use Guard and Reserve troops. The Department of Defense does not have to provide housing, medical care and base facilities for the families of reservists as it does with active-duty troops. The shortage of regular troops is not an accident; it is a conscious decision to save money. I have served in Iraq and back the mission there. But I do not support the use of reservists, and I object to the impact it has had on small towns. They are losing fire fighters and police who are members of the Guard...
...Because it's cheaper to use Guard and Reserve troops. The Department of Defense does not have to provide housing, medical care and base facilities for the families of reservists as it does with active-duty troops. The shortage of regular troops is not an accident; it is a conscious decision to save money. I have served in Iraq and back the mission there. But I do not support the use of reservists, and I object to the impact it has had on small towns. They are losing fire fighters and police who are members of the Guard...
...Because it's cheaper to use Guard and Reserve troops. The Department of Defense does not have to provide housing, medical care and base facilities for the families of reservists as it does with active-duty troops. The shortage of regular troops is not an accident; it is a conscious decision to save money. I have served in Iraq and support the mission there. But I do not back the use of reservists, and I object to the impact it has had on small towns. They are losing fire fighters and police who are members of the Guard...
...These noble failures suggest that self-conscious attempts at creating community simply don't work. Our divisions are too profound. True expressions of our common humanity are more spontaneous, if infrequent. And they generally emerge in response to two kinds of phenomena: disaster and discovery...