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...bound to ensue: they'll be either the perpetrators or the near victims of systematic torture. That is the message of two new films that have virtually nothing else in common. Together, though, they speak volumes about how American movies address political horror stories: as a tragedy or a joke...
...Branson and his team actually seem to have hope for air travel in the U.S., where poor service and perpetual bankruptcies have turned the industry into a sick national joke. Customer complaints soared 60% last year, a number that will surely get a boost from the 300,000 passengers who endured the abrupt cancellation in early April of nearly 3,300 American Airlines flights for inspections; there may be more at other airlines this summer. Crushed by high fuel prices, four airlines have declared bankruptcy since March...
...ignoring the world from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego is ridiculous. The U.S. exports $225 billion worth of goods each year to Latin America--more than quadruple what it sells to China. The old journalists' joke that Americans will do anything for Latin America but read about it now sounds more foolish than funny...
...humor had an oblique way about it,” he said. “He was not a one-liner joke kind of person. He would make little comments and asides that were just hilarious...
...student myself, I am not in the position to endow millions of dollars to give a huge prize,” Chadbourne said. University policy calls for a minimum of $25,000 to establish the cheapest variety of permanent award. Originally questioned as an April Fool’s joke over the UC general e-mail list, the self-titled award was announced under a blurry panorama centered on Lowell House, where Chadbourne lived as an undergraduate, and was accompanied by a paragraph detailing Chadbourne’s involvement in student government. While at Harvard, Chadbourne was a UC representative...