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Like a PBS Frontline special, but with a bit more attitude, Why We Fight makes a cogent case against the Iraq adventure. The film is, of course, a handbook for the converted. Those in agreement will see it, those opposed will ignore it. That is the fate of political documentaries in an age when the left mostly talks to itself...
...have a confession to make: I am a political junkie. not that I have a problem - it's under control. But yes, I admit it: I care deeply about the fate of Charles Kennedy, the affable party leader of Britain's Liberal Democrats, who resigned last week after the storm that followed his extraordinary admission that he has received help for what he termed "a drinking problem." So when I was cruising a Web news site late last week, I zeroed in on a headline reading I knew I had a problem, and I couldn't admit it, hoping...
...Missing the nationals doesn't necessarily mean Kwan won't skate in Torino in pursuit of Olympic gold, the only medal to have eluded her. She is petitioning the USFSA for one of three spots on the ladies' team, and her fate will be decided on January 14, immediately after the ladies' event at nationals. Kwan said her doctor cleared her to begin jumping on January 13, barely enough time to prove she will be ready to compete in Torino. "I believe I will be 100% for the Olympics, and I feel that I have a shot...
...With the aid of more than 90 hours of Treadwell's video footage, plus interviews with those who knew him, Herzog gets into the mind of a man who thought his nearness to the bears was a triumph of cross-species symbiosis, when in fact he was tempting the fate he eventually, tragically achieved...
...days later, King returned to Memphis to participate in another march, but what unfolded not only set back the nonviolence campaign but also set him on the path to his tragic fate...