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...movie begins in present-day Paris, where Tom Warshaw (David Duchovny) has spent the past 30 years working as an artist. However, as he reflects upon his son’s 13th birthday his thoughts drift back to his own 13th birthday and the life-changing events that preceded it. Before we know it, the film whisks us back to New York City’s Greenwich Village...
...opened up between the U.S. and Japan on the one hand and the old Continent on the other, mainly in such fields as microprocessors, information technologies and bioengineering. Linked to that imbalance is a lingering worry over slow growth and high unemployment. Another reason for the sense of drift is demographic. The 60% of Europeans born since V-E day tend to dwell less on the horrors of World War II than on a U.S.-Soviet rivalry that bristles with nuclear weapons, many of them based on European soil. In Western Europe, some of that sentiment has flowed into...
...downward drift in part reflects diminished confidence in the U.S. economy. Some currency traders have dumped dollars because they believe the recovery is coming to an end. The concern was reinforced last week when new Commerce Department figures showed that the economy in the second quarter grew at a 1.7% annual rate. That was well below the earlier estimate...
Legislators wield one potent weapon: money. In January, Utah state senators quietly red-lined funding for a $37 million digital-learning center at Utah Valley State College. The senators were worried about "the drift of the campus," says UVSC president Bill Sederburg, who fielded complaints from them about an Oct. 20 campus speech by Michael Moore, a student production of The Vagina Monologues and a course on queer theory in literature. "The legislators are saying 'We don't want the college to go too far and lose touch with the community.' But we have an obligation to protect academic freedom...
...looks the least uncomfortable: they're used to this. Steve has just moved into a crummy granny flat and in the last nine months has seen his children only a handful of times. "I had a real good relationship with the kids," he says. "But they're starting to drift away from me. I'm still Dad, but I'm not Dad like...