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...compassion in the conservatism, however, the campaign is not above playing on women's fears. "I can't imagine the great agony of a mom or a dad having to make the decision about which child to pick up first on September the 11th," says the President in a campaign advertisement. The ad is designed to show that Bush is empathetic but also to remind women that dangers can break into their daily routine. The Beslan school massacre was a stark reminder of that. Both campaigns realize the atrocity shook women to the core. At the White House on Sept...
...campus with flyers and freebies--all in an effort to win dorm dollars. The National Retail Federation, a trade group, says back to college--distinct from K12-oriented back to school--is the second biggest shopping season, behind the Christmas-Hanukkah-Kwanzaa holiday triple play. And while Mom and Dad pony up plenty of cash, students are, on average, spending more than $600 of their money on the latest and greatest must-haves, with the average freshman shelling out $1,200 on items ranging from linens to laptops...
García Bernal has that boyish quality; even when he dresses up for a film premiere, he looks like a kid in Dad's duds. The child behind the man--that's a theme in Bad Education, in which the main character is a homosexual plotting revenge for his childhood abuse by a priest. The actor playing that character must juggle many identities, and Almodóvar saw that ability in García Bernal: "The script demanded someone who would be absolutely desirable both as a woman and as a man, who would be spontaneously virile and not be grotesque when...
...confront his Oedipus complex. His brilliant lawyer father, who is so competitive that he holds the record for most footnotes in a legal article, once attempted to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica but quit in the B's. But even more important to Jacobs' emotional maturation than one-upping his dad is dealing with the tension of failing, over and over, to get his wife pregnant. Although, really, you don't expect a guy who goes to the Britannica headquarters in Chicago to report two errors to have boys that swim really fast...
...house. Inside, four Marines tend to the sobbing boy, who has been shot in the shin and is calling out in Arabic, which no one understands. "Why don't they hit the brakes?" says one Marine to no one in particular. "I think we killed that kid's dad," says another. A truck approaches but warning shots turn it around. "Tell them to stop all traffic!" a Marine shouts. "Too many cars are coming down here. We're shooting the wrong people...