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...communicate. Susan (Cate Blanchett) and Richard (Brad Pitt), the wounded tourist and her husband, can’t find a phone that will get through to the American embassy and are divided from the locals by a language barrier. Their Mexican nanny is frustrated in her attempts to explain herself to the U.S. border patrol after she illegally leaves the country with Susan’s kids. The Moroccan boys who fired on the bus during a deadly game of sibling one-upmanship can’t justify their actions to their parents or the provincial police who hunt them...
...Hall and reading some books in the nice fall weather. Two hours later, when I walked into Dr. S’s office, I greeted the receptionist in Russian and she told me to take a seat by her desk. Her name was Rita, and she was going to explain some things to me. A minute later, another Russian patient walked in, a woman wearing a red and white tracksuit and a Dior hairclip. “If you have trouble afterwards, you call him and he will call you back that day and help you,” Rita...
...Thomas C. Schelling, a 2005 Nobel-prize-winning economist and distinguished university professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, wrote “Micromotives” in the late seventies to explain collective human behavior. The book, comparable to Malcolm Gladwell’s recent work “The Tipping Point,” was revolutionary at the time and was praised accordingly...
...We’ve had a lot of guys shooting two- or three-over, and we just need one guy to go low each round. Frankly, everyone on our team is capable of doing that, and so far nobody has.” Hegge found himself unable to explain the Crimson’s inability to break through that barrier. “We played basically about the same both days,” he said. “The course played a little tougher today, but the weather was fine so there were no big issues...
...country changing as rapidly as China is, people often take comfort from things that remain the same. That may explain the alarm felt by residents of the western city of Lanzhou on Sunday afternoon, when they noticed that a stretch of the 3,400-mile Yellow River was not yellow - not even tan - but a color closer to magenta. By the next day China's official news agency, Xinhua, had published photographs of the Biblically hued slick and reported that an unknown substance spilling out of a local sewer had caused the river to "turn red and smelly...