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...article "State of Disgrace" about Bangladesh lacks balance. It depicts Bangladesh with no saving grace. No one disputes that violence, corruption, political turmoil, religious intolerance and insecurity permeate all developing countries. Bangladesh is well aware of its limitations but confident also of its achievements. It is following a committed path toward democracy, development and human rights. The government holds free and fair elections, and has established a good track record of progress on important social and economic indicators over the past two decades. It is also establishing an Independent Anti-Corruption Commission, an Ombudsman and an Independent Human Rights Commission...
...Everyone was struck by the way she handled her disease with such grace. Even though she was in such pain, she was always smiling,” Murphy said. “She was really an inspiration to the entire house...
Kill Bill: Vol. 2, is an ode to the most cunning and sensuous lips ever to grace the screen. Under the lens of Robert Richardson, an emerging master of the close-up, Uma Thurman’s lips star in Vol. 2 as though they were themselves a separate character. Indeed, an entire subplot could be drawn merely among the players’ lips, which Tarantino leaves under scrutiny through his final scene. Surely most moviegoers will reject this lip thesis in favor of the fairly blatant kung fu theme which runs through—and, admittedly, uplifts?...
...everyone who profited from this action in any way.” And he does, with impressive sadism. A moderate audience’s sympathies don’t always stay with the vengeance seeker but Scott wants us to care. His actors play their melodramatic roles with a grace that gives what is essentially a well-written straight-to-HBO Rutger Hauer flick a core that Mystic River never achieved. The kidnapping plot is incoherent, but in the end, certain flaws are inherent in every entry in the B-revenge genre. Tony Scott’s latest effort...
...stomping hoe-down to the tune of “This Little Light.” Despite the band’s roots in the New Orleans funeral tradition, the album is relentlessly upbeat. The sole exception is the one-minute excerpt of “Amazing Grace,” the low-point of sobriety and conformism that concludes the album...