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...part due to the communist government's murky investment rules and snail-pace economic reforms, investors grew frustrated and disillusioned over Vietnam's prospects. After the 1997 Asian financial crisis hit, the country's growth rate plunged from 8.2% to 4.8% in two years. "Vietnam didn't so much crash," Salzman recalls. "It was more like...
...making sure they were doing everything possible to ensure her expertise. There are many parents who are cavalier about their children's driving; the Bottis are not such parents. Angela is certainly a rarity: a 16-year-old driver who has completed almost a year of driving without a crash or a citation. If all teens were as careful, I would no doubt be doing something else for a living...
...years later, we have a butterfly infestation: movies and TV are obsessed with stories about the random connections among vast, multinational and multilingual casts of strangers. Crash won the Best Picture Oscar for a story of multicultural Angelenos brought into conflict by circumstance. This year Babel has Oscar buzz for spinning a wider web: an American couple vacationing in Morocco; the goatherd boy who, testing a new rifle by firing it at the tourists' bus, hits the wife; the couple's nanny, who takes their children on a disastrous day trip to Mexico; and the deaf Japanese girl improbably connected...
...through social-networking websites. We worry if our emissions will come back to us as global warming, if our foreign policy will come back to us as terrorism. A guy halfway around the world could read your X-rays, take your outsourced job, become your best MySpace friend or crash a plane into your office...
Butterfly fiction is not necessarily political. But when it is, it has an affinity with liberalism, perhaps because of its focus on how individuals can be shaped--or ruined--by social systems. Crash was a 10-car pileup of pieties about race relations. Emilio Estevez's hyperearnest film Bobby (opening later this month) juxtaposes the 1968 assassination of progressive martyr Robert F. Kennedy--portrayed messianically as the last, best hope for the race- and war-torn U.S.--with the imbricated stories of 22 characters. (One of whom is played by ... Ashton Kutcher. Coincidence? I think...