Word: exceptionality
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...three well-heeled guys on one of those self-help vacations that upper-class searchers took in the '60s. Go to India and get your life validated by the Maharishi. Or get good drugs at fire-sale prices. This could have ended up as a Midnight Express nightmare, except that the Whitman boys' luck is a little better, a little weirder. One of them finds romance with a train hostess (lovely Amara Karan). Two of them save local children from drowning. They meet up with their mother (Anjelica Huston) - the source, we soon realize, of some of the boys...
...memo from pan-European carrier Orange that was leaked to the press complained that the combination of the Nokia link and Orange's existing music service on the same phone could confuse customers. Orange does not deny the contents of the memo, but declined to elaborate on it, except to say in a carefully worded statement that it is testing the N81 and has not yet committed...
...Sydney, and moved his departure up a day to make the Iraq stop. Journalists expecting to travel on Air Force One to Sydney were contacted in secret Saturday afternoon, told that a trip to Iraq was to take place the next day and were asked to tell no one except a single editor and their spouse. Bush left the White House by car (rather than helicopter) Sunday after 7 p.m. without a motorcade. At Andrews Air Force Base he boarded Air Force One in its hangar and the plane only rolled out for take off after dark...
...paradisical Adriatic island, Venice Film Festival audiences were shown the horrors of war - and the U.S. occupation of Iraq - in two American movies premiering here. Brian De Palma's Redacted dramatizes the inhuman violence U.S. soldiers can be driven to commit in a country of which they know little, except that death can erupt anywhere. In the Valley of Elah, from Paul Haggis, who received a Best Picture Academy Award for Crash, enlists three other Oscar winners (Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron and Susan Sarandon) in a story of the war brought home...
...right to be left alone - but most everyone else bemoans the fact that only about half of us vote and don't do much more than send in our returns on April 15. The truth is, even the archetype of the model citizen is mostly a myth. Except for times of war and the colonial days, we haven't been all that energetic about keeping the Republic...