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...After the stately, hugely successful The Remains of the Day, which spawned the 1993 movie, Ishiguro went wild; his next two novels - The Unconsoled and When We Were Orphans - subjected their characters to chaos, violence and injustice. His latest, Never Let Me Go (Faber and Faber; 263 pages), is crueler still. And so who is this author: English intellectual or Japanese sensei? "I felt half English and half Japanese for a long time," says Ishiguro, relaxing in the small cinema that's the pride of his suburban London home. In the corner are three electric guitars, a reminder...
...time, history will weigh the fruits of his labors. Did this President leave the country better off or worse, richer or poorer, kinder or crueler, safer or in greater danger? But that is not Bush's concern. "A President shouldn't worry about how history will judge him," he says. And he gives every indication that it is God's judgment that concerns him. But that comes with a promise of forgiveness that history can easily withhold. --With reporting by David Van Biema/New York, Rita Healy/Denver, Betsy Rubiner/Des Moines, Nathan Thornburgh/Lowell and John F. Dickerson with Bush
Fate could hardly be less kind to the 2 million Filipinos estimated to live in the slums of Manila?labyrinths of squatter huts without electricity or plumbing and filled to their corrugated roofs with pestilence and vermin. Every once in a while, life there gets even crueler. Two Sundays ago, an incident occurred at Block 4, Lot 41, of a Manila shantytown on the grounds of the Bataan Shipyard & Engineering Co., at the home of Zaldy and Racquel Eusebio. Neighbors say the couple was quarrelling and Racquel threw a candle at her husband. The Eusebios say a candle simply fell...
...this have anything to do with the fact that Berlusconi's Medusa Group is distributing Pinocchio in Italy? Then, after Benigni restricted an awards ceremony photo-opportunity to just three minutes, Italian press photographers went out of their way to scrag him for getting too uppity. In a punishment crueler even than nasal elongation, the snappers all filed a single picture for the front pages - one with Benigni's face obliterated. By opening night, Benigni's grin was everywhere again. The film is beautiful, the music lush and memorable and the text duly honored. If Benigni ends up being hanged...
...this have anything to do with the fact that Berlusconi's Medusa Group is distributing Pinocchio in Italy? Then, after Benigni restricted an awards ceremony photo-opportunity to just three minutes, Italian press photographers went out of their way to scrag him for getting too uppity. In a punishment crueler even than nasal elongation, the snappers all filed a single picture for the front pages - one with Benigni's face obliterated. By opening night, Benigni's grin was everywhere again. The film is beautiful, the music lush and memorable and the text duly honored. If Benigni ends up being hanged...