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Sister Benedetta smiles politely when I joke that many of our fellow passengers will be calling to their maker when the plane begins its hellish descent. To avoid being shot down by Iraqi insurgents, the pilot must stay at 30,000 ft. until the plane is directly over Baghdad airport, then bank into a spiraling dive, straightening up just yards from the runway. If you're looking out the window, it can feel as if the plane is in a free fall from which it can't possibly pull out. I've learned from experience to ask for an aisle...
...living. Crime continues to soar, especially the booming business of kidnapping for ransom. U.S. officials say as many as 40 Iraqis are kidnapped every day. Ransom demands range from thousands of dollars to millions; many victims are never heard from again. Services are a cruel joke. As summer temperatures climb to 120?, there has been no perceptible improvement in electricity or the water supply. And at a time when people desperately need their gasoline-powered generators to operate ceiling fans and air conditioners, fuel has become scarce. The wait in a gas-station line can last all day. Last month...
...joke in this cunning debut film is not that a hard-boiled detective yarn is spun out in a modern high school and peopled mostly by teenagers. It's that the joke is not a joke at all but a pertinent metaphor for that vulnerable time of life when every street looks mean, every love affair could be fatal. Written in 1997, shot in 2003 (for less than $500,000) and finally released early this year, Brick is so handsomely made, so insolently assured, that you have to wonder what took the moneymen so long to realize that Johnson...
...guys joke together a lot - have you also fought...
...using guerrilla tactics--of garroting his opponents and leaving them to die, "raking in the dough" and blitzing the other side with negative ads--to advance pro-family candidates and agendas. Whenever he identified someone who understood the dark side of politics, Reed would say approvingly, "He gets the joke." It's what drew political reporters to Reed: we appreciated him in the same way we do James Carville and Harold Ickes on the Democratic side, or Lee Atwater and the reigning master, Karl Rove, on the Republican side. They're crass, sometimes ruthless and occasionally willing to stretch...