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...thought that Widener Library was a place where your soul could go to die, and your body could go to escape the rain, half of your presumptions were recently proven false when it started raining inside a reading room the other...
...Contrary to the American conventional wisdom that sees the U.S. mission in Afghanistan as central to Pakistan's security, Pakistani generals see a U.S. departure as key to stabilizing their country. "What is happening on this side of the border will die down once the American troops begin to withdraw," says Sherpao, echoing a widely held Pakistani assumption. "The extra troops will apply pressure on the Taliban, but then a parallel process would also start. By the time they start leaving, a consensus will begin to be formed on the future of Afghanistan...
...first thoughts following the birth of my son Laszlo - after figuring out how to get a pizza into the hospital - was, "What happens if my lovely wife Cassandra and I die in a car crash?" I'm not sure what kind of life I thought Cassandra and I would have driving around late at night, wasted, without our child, but I wish we had worked harder to pursue...
...never been more luminous, serious or sexy. Her Lena is woman enough to justify one man's need to possess or destroy her and another's desire to hold on to her for a lifetime. The emotions she stirs in her lovers are so intense, she has to die. Yet for Mateo, she's not a corpse but a ghost, a holy spirit...
Those who die young - not just Lena but actors like James Dean and Heath Ledger, politicians like Jack and Bobby Kennedy - are robbed of life but also of aging and decay. They are frozen at the apex of their beauty, power and promise. So lovers like Mateo, and movie lovers like the rest of us, have that perfect vision as a perpetual keepsake. Almodóvar knows it too: a dead love never dies...