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...This notion of self-made heroism is the theme of the first two blockbuster movies of the summer season. We saw it last weekend when Iron Man, the one where arms merchant Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) builds himself a heart, opened to $102 million at the domestic box office last weekend. Now comes Speed Racer, based on the '60s Japanese animated TV series, Mach GoGoGo. It's the new sound-and-light show from brothers Larry and Andy Wachowski, who in 1999 stamped the template for high-IQ effects entertainment with The Matrix. I don't think...
...because of friendship, other relationships, or a career in prostitution. Then the two part ways, and during this separation one or both realize that the other is the “one.” Finally, one person makes a grand gesture to win the other’s heart, and the story ends just as sweetly as it began. Obviously there can be many variations on this framework, but essentially this is what we’ve come to expect, and in many ways it’s this predictability that we look forward to the most. This basic...
...optimism of the 1960s has long since passed and the belief that man can rule his own life is only an unrealized myth, David J. Samuels ’89 tells us in “Only Love Can Break Your Heart.” In the preface to this new book—which consists of a decade’s worth of his essays that have appeared in such publications as The New Yorker—Samuels informs readers that his story “has something to do with our national gift for self-delusion...
...same time, though, she says they're trying to stage manage the entire process, skirting the fact that even if they do have the will to do what needs to be done, they have neither the capabilities nor the resources to pull it off. For at the heart of the junta's fearsome "normality" is fear itself...
...working-class bitterness now are sticking to him-fast-as polls show white blue-collar voters harboring serious doubts about his candidacy. So on Monday, a day before the primaries in North Carolina and Indiana, the last question Obama took at a "town hall" meeting got to the heart of the matter. Diana Allen, 39, an employee of LED light manufacturer, CREE, who identified herself as an undecided Democratic voter, said the most important thing for her was victory. So, she asked Obama, what can you say about how you would win the election in November...