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What most of these directors share is a gift for bending, sometimes gleefully mutilating, film form: taking old narratives styles like the crime movie or musical or horror film and making them fresh, vital, dangerous. The subjects could be familiar--amnesia in Nolan's Memento, obsession in Aronofsky's Pi--but when the story was told in reverse, or turned into a weird thriller, the narrative ingenuity became bracing and delicious. They were different from Hollywood--and different meant better...
...primary voters who are looking to express their own anger. Even the excitement factor - the prospect of being the first woman President - has been blunted by the fact that her leading challenger, Barack Obama, could be the first African-American one. What's more, Clinton is hardly a fresh face. By 2008, voters will have lived for two decades with either a Clinton or a Bush in the White House, and polls - including TIME's - show they are growing uncomfortable with the idea of American dynasties...
Saturday morning the sun poured in as I checked the room. The bed was at chest height, made up and empty, with clean, fresh sheets over the vinyl mattress. As I turned to leave, I was blocked by a nurse, an older Irish lady with a doleful look on her face. She had taken care of David last night...
...many that remain unanswered. But as a number of researchers see it, this is a strength rather than a weakness. For the mirror-neuron system has provided neuroscientists with a powerful new probe into the biological roots of the human psyche and prompted them to take a fresh look at old questions. Indeed, says Parma's Gallese, that's what makes the research so exciting--it's still in an early phase, and the fun has just begun...
...boundaries,” Tribe said. “He will make an extraordinarily fine president.” Wilkins, too, vows to be “supportive of him in any way possible” and said that he is a “terrific candidate offering a fresh perspective that is desperately needed in American politics.” He said he advised Obama to become a Supreme Court clerk. Obama recognized the honor in pursuing that post, Wilkins said, but quickly added that he wasn’t interested. “He said that he wanted...