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...dinner party, the scene is a strange one. Representatives from biological supply companies hawk arcane apparati—airborne pathogen detectors, emergency treatment kits—from booths along the periphery of the room. Conversation topics range from the banal to the bioanthropological...
Fulfilling the boundless promise exhibited in her debut effort, The Virgin Suicides, director Sofia Coppola crafts a sublime love letter to both Tokyo and transitory friendship with her Oscar-winning work. Hollywood star Bob Harris (Bill Murray) has been shipped off to Japan to hawk Centauri whiskey to the natives. There, he encounters Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), the beautiful wife of a photographer, and the pair are soon discovering the culture and a profundity in their friendship that is lacking in their respective marriages. Johansson perfects the prolonged sulk, while Murray delivers a career performance, donning the hats of weary voyager...
Meltzer capped off his NCAA tournament in the consolation rounds, losing to Lehigh’s Cory Cooperman by a technical fall at the 6:46 mark of the match. Meltzer had lost to the Mountain Hawk 6-1 when they met earlier in the year...
Every political period has its characteristic form of scandal. During the Reagan defense buildup of the mid-1980s, the scandal of the day was "waste, fraud and mismanagement" at the Pentagon, symbolized by the infamous $640 toilet seat. Amid the general embarrassment and excusemaking, only one defense hawk was bold enough to declare that waste and fraud were actually good things. "We need more" of them, wrote Edward Luttwak in Commentary. If you're going to build a stronger defense and build it fast, a bit of corruption is a necessary by-product...
Turks got 100 Black Hawk and Cobra helicopters from the U.S. before Gulf War I and used them against the Kurds...