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...these - and many other matters besides - are the subject of director Frank Oz's insanely funny, if occasionally out-of-control, black farce, Death at a Funeral, in which a bustling group of the British bourgeoisie gather to attend the last rites of a perfectly respectable and well-liked old gentleman who turns out to have had a secret life. That's where the dwarf comes in; he was in on the secret and thinks he has a right to some portion of the old boy's estate. He's also what the movie has for a villain...
...have known that their way out was unblocked and that no fire was in their path, that they could have walked out easily. Instead, they built a barricade to protect against toxic air, hunkered down and waited for rescue - but it never came, as mine officials were slow to gather a crew and to enter tunnels whose safety they couldn't ascertain. The 12 miners died of carbon monoxide poisoning...
...There is no useful profile to predict who will become radicalized. Most would-be terrorists are "unremarkable men" living "unremarkable lives." They don't have criminal histories, and they don't always gather at mosques...
...Bing's name doesn't get 37,300,000 links on Yahoo. Frank's fans don't gather by the thousands at his home on the anniversary of his death to hold a candlelight vigil. They were just great singers and movie stars. Elvis alone rules the kingdom, with the power of his myth, and the glory of a billion dollars in endlessly renewable merchandise...
Seoul said this morning that diplomats from both North and South will immediately begin lower-level meetings in advance of the summit. They will gather at the Kaesong Industrial park, just north of the demilitarized zone that has divided the Korean peninsula since 1953. The choice of site pays implicit homage to the June 2000 summit between Kim Jong Il and then South Korean President Kim Dae Jung. The Kaesong park - where South Korean light manufacturing plants employ North Korean workers - is one of the few lasting achievements to come out of that meeting. After Kim Dae Jung's term...