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...borderlands between Afghanistan and Pakistan have become home not only to millions of refugees, but also to countless rumors about the fate of the Taliban government inside Afghanistan. Everyone here, from Pakistani spies to Afghan heroin smugglers, has a different take on the future of Kabul's despotic clerics. And though much of the gossip about what is happening in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan--mass defections of soldiers, for instance--is just gossip, there are signs of weakness, hints that the tight core of men around Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar are at the very least anxious about what...
...reduced annual overtime pay. And their white-collar bosses aren't doing much better. Ford's 6,000 executives won't be getting any bonuses. The people who sell the cars and make most of their money from commissions are suffering much the same fate. Joe Torchia peddles Chevies at a dealership in Racine, Wis., where business was down 27% in September from the year before. So he and his wife Karen have had to cancel a wedding-anniversary trip to Las Vegas and halt a home-remodeling project...
...sure, Bush’s sudden burst of popularity will not last forever. We saw how long support for his father, former President George H.W. Bush, lasted when victory in the Gulf War gave way to economic recession and domestic woes. A similar fate awaits our current president. Just as patriotism dissipated in 1992 and allowed Bill Clinton to pull an unimaginable victory from Bush Sr., George W. Bush’s moment in the sun is destined to fade away...
Where Training Day, as written by David Ayer, goes wrong is at the end, when their conflict turns into open warfare and the bad cop is isolated and left to his own grim fate. You don't quite believe that Alonzo's once supportive neighbors would suddenly turn their backs on him when his crimes are exposed. You mean to say they never knew? You mean to say they didn't take a certain satisfaction in the way he bent the system to his own advantage? This resort to conventional morality betrays the amoral logic of the movie...
...last pair of black gloves on display. This leads to a magical New York City evening--ice cream, ice skating, faux-intimate cross talk. When they part, he writes his phone number on a $5 bill; she places hers in a used book that she promises to sell. If fate means for them to be together, these clues will circulate back to one or the other of them, she says...