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...dish she particularly cares for. The next thing she knows she is being tortured by the Inquisition on the grounds that her dietary preference is dictated not by taste but by a secret adherence to Judaism. She is then jailed (for 15 years), impregnated by her chief tormentor, Father Lorenzo (Javier Bardem) and driven mad, largely because her child is taken from...
...married the son, not the father...
...tour in the same place where Senator Robert F. Kennedy finished his own poverty tour 40 years ago. "Instead of being angry about it, James was proud. He was strong. He showed the kind of character that I think represents what America is. These people, people like my father, people like James Lowe, they're the people who built America - not these people on Wall Street...
...stopped trying. He was one of 10 children, born to parents too poor to pay for the treatment he needed, and of course there was no insurance. Embarrassed by his condition, Lowe dropped out of school in fifth grade without learning to read or write, and eventually followed his father into the mines - and still couldn't afford treatment. Twenty-three years ago he was partially paralyzed in a mining accident and could no longer perform manual labor. That didn't leave him many options...
...there you have it: Illinois soldiers in Iraq are still 10 times more likely to be killed than teenagers in Chicago. Well, that's a relief - the same way it's a relief to discover that your brother's terminal illness is progressing more slowly than your father...