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...through the first days and weeks after 9/11 has dissipated. Not because the threat has disappeared but for the simple reason that in our ordinary lives we simply cannot sustain that level of anxiety. The threat is as real as it was on Sept. 12. It only feels distant because it is psychologically impossible to constantly face the truth and yet carry...
...steady backbeat. Interpol has a new swagger, is more direct and present. Banks’ familiar drone, tired but on pitch, remains an ideal complement for the shadowy sound his band churns out. The vocal melodies are catchy and diverse. The final product is more organic and less distant than the debut...
...Confused? The plot is complex in print but pellucid on the screen. With the dexterity of a cardsharp, Wong shuffles the present, the recent past and the distant future, mixing reality, memory and fantasy. The main action of the movie takes place on consecutive Christmas Eves in the late '60s, but each scene has reverberations of others from Chow's past and from the novel. What anchors each of the stories for the viewer are the faces of the actresses. No explanations are needed when Zhang is lasering a stare as bold as a shout or Lau is sobbing herself...
Sadly, a safe and peaceful Iraq seems an ever more distant dream. The Bush administration has been roundly criticized for its failures to plan adequately for reconstruction, and, in part due to those mistakes, stabilizing and rebuilding Iraq has proven to be a slow and exceedingly difficult process. A budding insurgency has led to a fracturing of the coalition’s control of the region, and American credibility, which was already suffering, has taken further hits. As feared, Iraq has become a rallying point for terrorist recruitment throughout the Middle East. It was recently revealed that a classified C.I.A...
...peace that was born at Oslo a few years earlier was dying. It was the beginning of the end for the once hoped-for peace between Arabs and Jews. For me, it was the beginning of a new journey in life: a search for an opportunity in distant lands not torn by hate and injustice...