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...empty dialogue. Instead of adding depth and intelligence to the story, the screenwriters become redundant, reiterating the premise of the film over and over again. The casting company even forgot to do their job as well, as one of the most distracting issues in the movie is the gap between the actors’ ages and the ages of the characters they are meant to portray. Ironically, the result of relying entirely on a tried-and-true framework is that the framework itself begins to fail. Normally, Hannah’s innocent expressions would be considered endearing as the plot...
...think that [crimes] will happen to them, but they do. You just have to be careful.” Wu says integrating into local communities is one of the most challenging tasks in studying abroad. “There’s a really big culture gap, especially in Africa, that makes it hard to integrate,” Wu says. To aid that process, she joined a ballroom dance team that sometimes practiced for over five hours a day, and eventually went with them to a competition in Swaziland. As the only non-black female in attendance, Wu says...
...waiting for Burma's military leaders to request aid from a regional emergency fund the U.N. agency set up last year to fill the time gap between international donors' pledges and the actual arrival of aid. About $175,000 would be available right away, she said...
...Ledbetter Fair Pay Act failed to gain a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. (Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama support the bill; John McCain is against it.) The National Women's Law Center, which is supporting Ledbetter, says changing the law would help close the gender wage gap; on average, women earn 77? to every dollar earned...
...blessing of her manager mother and the participation of her co-star father). As with the Janet Jackson incident at the Super Bowl, the dustup revealed a chasm between those who shrugged off the photo and those who saw it as an assault on common decency. The artsy/skanky gap, if you will...