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...current military strategy in Iraq, which has shown recent gains. Giuliani hopes to shift the focus back to September 11, 2001, when he led New York City out of the smoky ruins of the World Trade Center. Thompson has pinned his campaign to his own charismatic tough-guy appeal, as the man ready to face both foreign enemies and domestic threats like immigration. "I would ask that you consider this, when our worst enemy is sitting down at the negotiating table," Thompson asked the crowd here, "who do we want sitting on the other side...
...Bucket List we learn that, for a lower-middle-class fellow like Carter, there's no death sentence that can't be ameliorated by running into a wealthy guy ready to spend millions of dollars on a Last Holiday. (The 1950 Alec Guinness film of that title, remade in 2006 with Queen Latifah, is one of many precursors to this fantasyland scenario.) The specific lesson to be taken from this doesn't have much practical application, unless the dying start demanding a double room with a billionaire when they check in for their inoperable cancer surgery. But this movie exists...
...Savages, The Bucket List: these are fairy tales for the dying and their survivors. The Reiner movie gets some honest laughs when physical agony makes its heroes behave less than heroically - "Somewhere," Edward mutters during one lightning blast of pain, "some lucky guy's havin' a heart attack" - but its prescription is essentially whimsical: a Percocet disguised as a miracle cure to defeat the fear of death...
...film also fits into the recent, dominant trend of buddy movies. Each of the dying men here has to find his destiny not on his own, not with his family or through fulfilling work, but with another guy on a toot. The men in Sideways needed to cut loose before one of them got married; the high school kids in Superbad had to get laid before graduation. In this film, the deadline is death, but the M.O. is the same: fun, fun, fun till the Reaper takes your Mustang away...
...still seems to come across like he is talking to you," says Don Woods, a letter carrier from Cedar Rapids who attended a Huckabee event last Thursday. "I have yet to meet a friend or co-worker who hasn't come away thinking, 'I could live with this guy...