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...Barnz wants to put us through an experience of frustration and miscommunication, mirroring Phoebe's own, fine. But if that's what he's up to, he fails to maintain a coherence of tone within that narrative technique. At one point, Phoebe does something quite dramatic and dangerous. The movie has been steaming steadily toward this foreshadowed moment, and we feel it coming as a reckoning, involving shrinks, medication, and if Phoebe is lucky, rescue. Instead Barnz, bizarrely, softens it and turns it into another trip to the principal's office, stretching his credibility past the breaking point...
...This was transpacific yin and yang, and it all worked fine - until it stopped working almost entirely, late last year. Now both economies are flailing while leaders try to mitigate the worst effects of a frightening global recession. And the odd thing is, the two countries' salvage efforts are pretty much polar opposites as well. (See pictures of China's electronic-waste village...
...Abramov wrote on the blog after the production ended that he had been called up for military duty. "This situation is absurd," he wrote. "I've just spent three months working on a project where I felt the door opening? Now this illusion is over." What remains is a fine film and a new way of documenting a place we hear about often, but never really know...
...Perlman and his arm held up just fine. The lanky hurler made nine starts, going 3-1 with a 3.11 ERA. Perhaps even more telling, he finished tied for second in the league with 55 innings pitched...
...book has just been released by Ignatius Press (the longtime U.S. publisher of Ratzinger's work) that lays out in fine detail the Jesuit's vision of Islam's ancient tenets and current tendencies. Called 111 Questions on Islam, it is the translation of a book-length interview two Italian journalists conducted with Samir in 2002 in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. The priest says that in reviewing the material before the English-language release, he was struck by how little there was to update. "The major points that I laid out are the same today, after more than...