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While the repression of their stories is a tragic element of the American system, the tragedy of their deaths is not an American tragedy. Those who died a year ago were from both sides of America’s borders. The collapse of the towers was first and foremost a human tragedy, felt more acutely by families like the Arrazolas in Mexico than by most families in the United States who were not directly affected...
...achieve this feel, virtually every element of the film, from cast to camerawork, borrows enthusiastically from combat cinema's archives. One scene will be shot in the flickery black-and-white of the Godzilla genre, another will unfold entirely in Japanese anim?. Tarantino even sent his cinematographer, Oscar winner Bob Richardson (Platoon, JFK, Wall Street), lists of must-see Samurai and Shaw Brothers' classics like Five Fingers of Death and One Armed Swordsman as a pre-production crash course in the camerawork of the kick-flick canon...
Though he protests that there's "no such thing as a typical Rattle evening," the element of surprise is itself one of his hallmarks. "I like to mix programs as you would prepare a meal," he says. "Sometimes there's a need for some kind of little lemon sorbet." Three years ago the self-governing musicians of the bpo decided that Rattle was just the palate cleanser they needed after the sometimes difficult tenure of Claudio Abbado, the first maestro to announce his retirement in the orchestra's 120-year history. Rattle signed a 10-year contract and has already...
...remain determined not to allow a fringe element to hold the entire nation hostage and hijack our agenda for reforms,” he said...
...last week that Perle and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz were maneuvering to commit the administration to attack Iraq simply to finish what was started in the Gulf War. But Perle and Wolfowitz are not mere loose cannons; they are seen in Washington as the spokesmen of the hawkish element in the Bush administration whose number is thought to include Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and Vice President Cheney...