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...knows well, the kid is happy riding and the show ends right on schedule with no surprises. Sure, the wealthy pro-choice donors who fund the GOP occasionally break into an uneasy sweat when caught in an elevator crush with a few of the party's pro-life, pro-gun fuglemen, but in the end everybody has a good time, and we usually win the election...
...Afghanistan Your cover showed a soldier standing near a gun emplacement [July 28]. A better photo would have been the one in Rory Stewart's article, in which two Kabul residents are holding hands as they cross an incomplete bridge. That picture more closely represents what is likely to help Afghanistan achieve its rightful future of peace and stability: a helping hand. Piyoosh Kotecha, BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA...
Nearby, queues formed outside a bank as Zimbabweans waited to withdraw remittances sent from abroad by relatives. When a 21-gun salute sounded in Mugabe's honor, people scattered, as though they expected reprisals. The mood of rebellion seemed to infect the ranks of Harare's political analysts too. Though few could hear him, Mugabe vowed in his speech to tackle corruption and provide food. Political analyst Fred Musayengana dismissed the address as lacking substance. "There is really nothing to talk about in the President's speech," he says. "It is hollow. It does not address fundamental issues like employment...
...cars are armed, but the track is booby-trapped. Manhole covers may explode as the cons drive over them; guards with machine guns open fire at Hennessey's command; one car gets napalmed. It's like al Qaeda at Daytona. Naturally, several of the participants, racing careers are ended prematurely - beheading is the movie's favorite form of early retirement - which forces competing drivers to become occasional allies, as when Ames and Machine Gun Joe "play a little offense," teaming up to demolish one of Hennessey's fire-spewing trucks. Round and round they go, till...
...flash "WALK," then "RUN") to "New Los Angeles." And in contrast to the all-male gang in the new film, with the ladies reduced to riding shotgun, Bartel's drivers are equally split between men and women. David Carradine is Frankenstein, and a pre-Rocky Sylvester Stallone plays Machine Gun Joe, but there's also Warhol renegade Mary Woronov as Calamity Jane and Roberta Collins as Goth gal Mathilda the Hun. They are as aggressive as the guys, with Woronov's "Zany Janey" having depleted a stable of studs; and their subservient navigators...