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...true, too true. But the example of Anne--prosperous, well-adjusted Anne, loving wife and mother--raises the overarching question of road anarchy. Residents of late 20th century America are arguably the luckiest human beings in history: the most technologically pampered, the richest, the freest things on two legs the world has ever seen. Then why do we drive like such jerks...
...Land of the Free Even after Beijing?s takeover, Hong Kong is rated the freest economy on Earth. The Chinese mainland itself is ranked Number 120. Where...
WASHINGTON: Its new status as the jewel in China's crown may be keeping droves of tourists away, but Hong Kong still reigns supreme as the freest economy in the world, according to an annual survey by the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal...
...have been suffocated by the censorious new lords from the mainland. So Wong Kar-wai's kicky art movie about two cops on the night shift not only is as mod as tomorrow's couture, it also serves as a nostalgia trip through what has been Asia's freest colony. Here are a cool killer-drug queen (veteran stunner Brigitte Lin) and an indefatigable ingenue (pop pixie Faye Wang) exercising their wiles on lovelorn guys--all caught in Wong's murky, slo-mo camera eye. The twilight, late-night and hangover dawn of a civilization has rarely looked so ravishing...
...come, the soft spots in their arguments are likely to become more apparent. For a party committed to free-market principles -- and which also wants to defund public television and end government oversight of the airwaves -- a problem is that pop culture represents the free market at its freest, meaning most able to make a profitable pitch to the grosser appetites. Some of the most violent American films, like the Stallone-Willis-Schwarzenegger action pictures, are also among the most successful American film exports because their bang-bang simplicities translate easily across cultural boundaries. Says Democratic Senator Bill Bradley...