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...union has also made it clear that the strike was not just about dollars and cents, but about respect as well. The workers, Toussaint intoned, deserve to be noticed, not to mention appreciated, for their endless toil below ground, among the rats and the steel dust. The notice they gained this week, however, looked at times more like notoriety-from commuters carping about the relatively high transit worker salary to angry blogs posting pictures of various station agents sleeping in their booths before the strike. But on this morning, however, forgiveness was in the close subway station...
...road a new man. "I'm like a camel. I store up sleep in my hump," he says. U2's never-ending Vertigo tour has come to Boston, and from his palatial suite he has the panorama of a city blanketed in snow and capped by an endless blue sky. After a quick traipse through Boston Common, it's time to go to work...
...easy to say that people don't help others because they're unaware of what's going on in the world. But maybe the problem is that they're too aware. In a world of endless woes, you can be overwhelmed into inaction. Or you can make, at some level, an arbitrary choice. That is where celebrities come in, because there is no phenomenon more arbitrary than celebrity. They are attention filters, the human equivalent of throwing a dart at a map. A pretty face and a famous name are a convenient excuse to focus on one problem...
...psychic cost of protracted violence is even more engaging than the beginning action. Near the film’s end Kauffman is sucked into a debate with his Israeli Secret Service handler (Geoffrey Rush). Kauffman argues that Israel’s retaliatory course will not achieve peace, only an endless cycle of bloodshed and recrimination. The mission has made paranoia, rage, and guilt permanent fixtures of Kauffman psyche, and he predicts a similar fate for his homeland if it makes vengeance state policy. In these last frames Spielberg makes the connection between Israel in September of 1972 and the United...
...appealing and the plot gripping, the movie ultimately seems like an Australian version of “The Blair Witch Project.” The movie kicks off with wild party footage like that of a teen comedy, but rapidly turns into an exhilarating thriller. The trio drives along endless dirt roads until they reach a small town, where they attempt to pick up gas and the girls are sexually threatened by a group of un-groomed locals. McLean successfully uses shaky camera footage and a series of UFO-related stories to create a genuinely foreboding atmosphere. After their...