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...potential is clear. A one-way journey from Boston to Washington DC on Amtrak’s Acela Express takes 9 hours and 15 minutes, but over roughly the same distance from Frankfurt to Munich, Germany’s InnerCity Express (ICE) takes one-third the time and costs $30 less. For the same journeys, flights take approximately the same amount of time as ICE, but are cheaper in Europe than in the U.S. because airlines have to compete with train fares. After adding time for transport to the airport, security and check-in, ICE is very time-competitive with...
...have relatives that hire migrant workers to work on their farms. Each worker legally entered the United States and has the required documentation to work here. If you ask any one of them how bad their trip to the U.S. was, you would get the same story: The journey didn’t involve escaping bandits along a highway. It was, at most, an uncomfortable trip on a crowded bus. So, what did Kyle really learn? He gained insight into what it takes to enter the U.S. illegally. Gee, it was scary. It is probably just as scary to deal...
...running away from them in this business." Asked if he worried that public scrapes could hurt his political future, Kennedy said "there's no mortal blows there. It's really a question of how I respond - whether I react, or respond... I'm still in this lifetime journey of living and learning, but I think I have been around back home enough for people to take a full view of me and not have me isolated to a few negative headlines or sensational reporting...
...aspect of the characters, however, is summed up in the story of the scorpion and the frog, which Arkadin tells. A scorpion convinces a frog to take him across a river, because if the scorpion stings the frog, they will both die. In the midst of their journey, the frog feels the sting and says, “Why? This is illogical. We will both die.” The scorpion responds, “I can’t help it. It is my character.” This anecdote foreshadows the plot of the movie while making...
...Fonda promises. In particular, “Ted’s children asked me to take out the sex.” During editing, Fonda cut 500 pages, “But I left in what I felt I needed to leave in order to render my journey vibrant and palpable,” she says...