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...movie (and second feature film to date), “Jack and Jill vs. the World,” Parise again takes on the numerous roles of actress, director, producer, and co-writer. Juggling all of these responsibilities proved a tremendous challenge. “Actually, the writing happened first, so that’s isolated and fine to do along with everything else. The acting takes a lot of preparation. The producing and directing happened simultaneously. It’s probably not something I’d like to do again because each one takes so much time...
...languid for people who “are out of time and only got four minutes to save the world.” When I first saw a row of rather flashy cars enter the frame, for example, I thought that some sort of car chase was going to happen. It would fit in with the “only got four minutes” theme that’s going on. What better way to spend them than smashing up Porsches one by one? But no—Justin Timberlake and Madonna jump around on top of the cars...
...their preferences, precisely because of what they see is the necessity of continuing America's current policy. Osama Hazim al-Shimari, a Baghdad street merchant, says: "John McCain will be better for Iraq because he's the only one who has a logical view... What do you think will happen to Iraq if America withdraws its forces? I support McCain not because he'll bring good things to Iraq, but at least what he says about withdrawing troops is honest." Kurdish legislator Bukhari Abdallah Khudur is of the same opinion because the Iraqi government is so fragile. Says Khudur: "Iraqis...
...Thinking back to the Government class on “American Public Policy” I took seven semesters ago, I am reminded that social changes seem to happen either from the bottom up, with individuals transmitting their shifting ideals to the politicians who represent them (think of King’s 1963 March on Washington), or from the top down, with politicians or courts making sometimes-progressive policies that individuals gradually accept with realigned opinions...
...particularly interested in children or in getting married," Box says. Although Stanley was accepted early by the University of Chicago, her father wouldn't let her go. She was too young to be off on her own, he said, unaware, as fathers tend to be, of what could happen when she lived in his house. (Read "Obama's Half Brother Makes a Name for Himself in China...