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...Most of the country's successful directors either make highly commercial films for the domestic market or gratify the international-festival crowd with minimalist fare that plays to foreigners' concepts of Japanese aesthetics. Sai, 55, doesn't fit either model-his earthy, empathetic stories of immigrants and outsiders are smart without being arty, and he's carved out a niche for himself by using his work to explore his own ethnic-Korean identity. Though his father emigrated from Korea to Japan 80 years ago, Sai, like most of the country's 700,000 residents with Korean roots...
...album suffers from over-writing and over-conceptualizing—U2 has too much to say these days to fit their ideas into concise songs, and thus these songs lose the urgency that characterized U2’s early sound in their sprawling nature. The other persisting problem on the album is the even further emerging figure of Bono. With his personal celebrity aside, he is increasingly becoming the central musical figure of the band, with his vocal twists and turns of phrase more memorable than any guitar hook or bassline, recalling the later albums of another band fronted...
...than a dozen hand-selected buyers all over the country to stock his store with just the right kind of nostalgia-chic clothing for the college-age hipster. His buyers are true aficionados, the kind who “would see a shirt and it wouldn’t fit them, and they’d buy it anyway so no one else would get it,” Simon says. Still, every piece in the store has been approved by Simon himself, who aims to keep the merchandise relevant to incoming freshmen. “I try to keep...
...means banning guns completely from company premises, including the parking lot. U.S. Judge Sven Erik Holmes, who hears the case this week in Tulsa, faces a balancing act-- the citizen's Second Amendment right to bear arms against the right of a private business to operate as it sees fit. --By David E. Thigpen
That's why the case of James Gardner is so surprising. He seems to fit the profile perfectly: he's a Portland, Ore., attorney, not a scientist, who argues--are you ready for this?--that our universe might have been...