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...deeply shocked and saddened by your decision to include the mayor of Tirana, Edi Rama, in your list of European Heroes. You praise his campaign to paint hundreds of buildings in the city in tutti-frutti colors, but the owners and residents were not even consulted and could not oppose the mayor's ukase. Is that your model of a political hero in a democratic society? While pursuing that caprice, he left the water, sewer and electricity networks in dire condition. You're right that he has leveled hundreds of illegal buildings, particularly in the city center, but these were...
...Gannon (Lucas), and Lt. Kara Wade (Biel) are the three U.S. Navy pilots chosen to fly highly advanced Stealth fighter jets—I know, this ragtag bunch just screams “elite.” But the drama heats up when a fourth unit, “Edi,” an artificially intelligent, unmanned combat aerial vehicle, joins the team...
Potential problems are not lost on a smarty like Gannon. When Captain George Cumming (Sam Shepard) announces, “Edi flies all by himself,” Gannon quickly corrects, steely-eyed, “You mean itself.” Sadly, Edi isn’t all that scary, even when he (it?) starts threatening to bomb things, because Cohen only lets his computer villain speak in “traditional computer...
Cohen, who put his Harvard credentials to good work with such masterpieces (gasp) as “The Fast and the Furious” and the aforementioned “xXx,” drops to new levels here. Despite giving Edi a full database of angry rock music to play while he zooms through the sky, we never really feel the action. The ring of fire explosion shown in the trailer doesn’t leave your heart pumping, and even a total building demolition seems lackluster. Though Foxx is trying hard to emulate Will Smith (with the hippest...
...clan have asked Putin to change the regional constitution - which states that presidential candidates must be at least 30 - so Ramzan can run, and some regard his appointment as First Deputy Prime Minister as a sign he's being groomed for the job. "Ramzan's promotion is right," says Edi Isayev, an advisor at the office of Chechnya's representative to Moscow. "He is fearless like his father. He is reliable and has carried out all his tasks excellently." Putin hasn't yet responded to the Chechen appeal, but Veshnyakov said there would be no change to the Chechen constitution...