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Unsurprisingly, the TSA produced an inefficient hodgepodge of rules and regulations that provide little security at great cost. Despite a raft of new restrictions, systematic infringement on civil liberties, and oodles of investment (over $17 million per day), both the General Accounting Office (GAO) and the Department of Homeland Security have found that the TSA is no more effective than the private security providers it replaced. In fact, in comparison with the five airports that are still privately run (Republicans insisted on exempting them from the nationalization), the GAO found that TSA screening was actually worse...
...Case for Literature,” a collection of essays and lectures inspired by the 2000 Nobel Lecture of Gao Xingjian—the only Chinese author ever to win the Nobel Prize for Literature—is in many ways the author’s literary manifesto.Gao, an intellectual who wrote his most well known novel, “Soul Mountain,” while in exile after the Chinese Cultural Revolution, is a self-described non-Communist, non-democratic, non-traditionalist non-modernist author. Rejecting the ideological dogmatism that defined the nation of his birth, Gao argues...
...diverted from their intended purposes. There were solid grounds for that concern. The General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of Congress, reported last week that the State Department was unable to account definitively for some $17 million of the $27 million that Congress had authorized for the program. The GAO claimed that a small amount was actually spent on military equipment; an Administration source confirmed this but blamed a mistake by a contractor. In another example of undocumented spending, diplomats familiar with the project say that $900,000 had been paid indirectly to officials in Honduras as bribes...
...Emperor's Shadow covers some 30 years in the lives of two boys: a sturdy kid who will become the Emperor and his sensitive friend who will become the musician Gao Jianli ? think Jimmy Cagney and Pat O'Brien in Angels With Dirty Faces. Both are suckled by Jianli's mother and raised as brothers. When they're 10, they're separated for pursue their different and colliding destinies. In maturity, the warlord (played with a bull-headed majesty by Jiang Wen, China's leading movie actor) hears than Jianli (Ge You, a stalwart of several Zhang Yimou films...
...pull; their lyrics don't put the personal conflicts across with the same clarity and intensity. Domingo, a trouper at 64, has the notes down but struggles with his enunciation. (Even though he's singing in English, we needed the subtitles.) Paul Groves gets all he can out of Gao Jianli, but the role as written here hasn't nearly the force of will, the sacred venom, that Ge You embodied in the film. Best among the principals is Elizabeth Futral as Yueyang: at once coquettish and ferocious, adroitly meeting the role's singing and acting requirements...