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...film, Insomnia, is more conventional than Memento (it starts at the beginning, for one thing) but just as unsettling. It stars Al Pacino as a morally dubious Los Angeles cop who is exiled to Alaska to solve a murder and Robin Williams as the killer. "To me, the whole film is like a nightmare," says Nolan, 31, smiling as he gently rocks to and fro, "some awful waking dream...
...short: Cornel West is black. He is also a daffy, dubious academic. Is it really so unlikely that Larry Summers had the latter, and not the former, criterion in mind...
...compensation; in many cases, the church knew about priests’ pedophilia and yet kept reassigning them to local churches, when any reasonable observer could determine that more children might be at risk. The archdiocese’s backpedaling after an agreement was reached appears to be just a dubious and underhanded attempt to relinquish its complicity in many of these crimes. Fear of growing payments from hypothetical future settlements ought not to deter justice from being met here...
...short life, the Bush administration has had a dubious record on environmental and energy issues. Whether it was the ill-conceived drilling proposal that would have spoiled millions of acres of protected land in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve or the secret meetings with energy executives that led to a selfish policy to benefit oil and chemical company cronies at the expense of the environment, it is farcical for Bush to claim any high ground in the debate to protect America’s environmental future. But ironically, that is just what the president tried to do on Earth...
...says. “You read The Age of Innocence and hear all about the Fifth Avenue debutantes. The houses had their own ballrooms. It’s not like that anymore.” Lyman too maintains that the distinction of being a debutante is dubious. “No one I know, especially the New York ones, actually cares about the coming out part,” she says. “It doesn’t mean anything anymore...