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...help them be more productive. Run entirely by local staff and villagers, the low volume of funds involved reduces the risk of corruption and doesn't require helicopters or fleets of vehicles. These programs pay for themselves through the economic benefits they generate. They fail to catch the public eye, however, and hence remain desperately underfunded. By making modest investments in the world's most vulnerable people, millions can enjoy better, longer lives. And the need for high-profile crisis interventions will be reduced. Andrew MacMillan Scansano, Italy...
...McCarthy notes, Alton liked to throw whatever light he needed on a back wall, leaving the actors as foreground shadows. Sometimes the only thing visible in a closeup is the white of a man's eyes, or the moisture in a woman's. The enveloping shadows reduce the visual information, isolate elements to which the audience's attention can be directed. In Raw Deal, Alton's closeups of Claire Trevor and Marsha Hunt manage to catch a cross of light in the left eye of each actress, and another glistening cross in their earrings. Later, to show that time...
...hilarious (the time we soundly defeated a troop of 12-year-old challengers) to the borderline pathetic (how much we relished in loudly swatting the same 12-year-olds’ jump shots). In general, though, the details of our actual games are pretty unremarkable. Kevin has the deadest eye out of all of us, Pietro, the sweatiest torso, and I, meanwhile, own a history of dishing behind-the-back passes which never seem to materialize into assists...
...Only halfway through the meal did I glance around and notice the only woman on board. I realized she had cooked our food, served it, and was now holding the boat steady on course until the men finished their meal and deigned to choose a direction. She caught my eye and smiled softly. The distance between us was vast: Traveling alone and choosing my own direction, I was effectively male. She would never be anything but a wife serving fish to menfolk.Unfortunately, defying social convention has its price. I was not always invited to sit at the men?...
...them. "They weren't developing correctly," she said. The soft-spoken sergeant asked how long she had considered murder. Two years, she said. "Since I realized I have not been a good mother to them." Mehl watched her movements. She looked him in the eye. She nodded. Sometimes she answered, "Yes, sir." But she would sit in 15 seconds of stone-cold silence if he asked too much. She could give only short answers to simple questions in their 17-minute conversation as she twice recounted the order in which her children were born and died...