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...What to take away from the Saberi trial now is up to the Obama administration. It could follow the drums of the anti-dialogue voices and use Saberi’s case to once again balk at pursuing negotiation, or it could give credit—for whatever it’s worth—to Ahmadinejad’s public defense of Saberi’s right to appeal and view that, as a signal, Tehran is not willing to lose the diplomatic progress of the past season after Obama’s inauguration. The stakes are too high...
...name “Christie”—the 1980s. His novels have returned to these subjects again and again, beginning in “Less Than Zero,” continuing through his seminal work, “American Psycho,” and into a follow-up collection of short stories, “The Informers”—lately made into a somewhat uncomfortable film.Simon & Schuster, the New York publishing house, gave Ellis a huge advance on “American Psycho” after the 21-year-old author launched with...
...what elevates The Soloist into the ranks of the best newspaper movies is its honesty. The columnist wants that column, and maybe a follow up, and yes, making a sorry life less sad is good, but he never wanted to become a defacto one-man Social Services Agency. He can't cure Ayers and no one is trying to gloss over that reality here (except for one scene at the end that contradicts what we've come to know about Ayers' ability to cope with crowds). All Lopez can do is try to help, and the movie gives testimony...
...Obama has acted wisely in attempting to move past the vestigial Cold War animosity that seems to perpetually guide our Cuba policy, but we hope that he will follow up his warm gestures with concrete action...
...into effect in 2012. If cabinet-level appointments and rhetoric are any indication, the current administration at least has a clear conception of what the problem is (which can’t be said of its predecessor). The rest of the world is, once again, prepared to follow America’s lead. Even China, whose official stance for years has been that the carbon in the atmosphere wreaking havoc today was emitted by the major powers during the Industrial Revolution, thus absolving itself of any responsibility to curb emissions, appears ready to relent somewhat. Although they remain unwilling...