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...homes and lives of countless millions. (HBO is owned by TIME's parent company, Time Warner.) His view of American history is a mixture of idealism and realism, both of which have characterized all the work he has produced; he's a Kennedy liberal with old-time values, the kind that embraces Main Street on the Fourth of July. The success of Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers turned him into a Tom Brokaw-like spokesperson for the Greatest Generation. When he visits Johnson Space Center in Houston or Fort Bragg in North Carolina, he is feted...
...movie did give Hanks his eureka moment. During filming on Parris Island, he toured the Marine Corps training facilities and was impressed by the rigorous discipline the young Marines followed and the way it drew them together as a group. "Astronauts, test pilots, Army Rangers all adhere to a kind of self-government that is infectious," he says. "They become a spiritual class - part family and part competitive - that's undeniable." These are the attributes Hanks admires - and envies. "The fact is, I have no inner discipline," he says, "and Americans rigorously training to perform public service is inspiring...
Antoine Fuqua's new film Brooklyn's Finest should have been a cable television series. Centered on a trio of Brooklyn cops in various states of moral decay, it has the kind of loose narrative threads and meaty roles better explored over the course of years rather than two hours. On the small screen, Fuqua would have more time with material he clearly loves, the corpse per hour count could have been mercifully stretched out and dozens more actresses could have found steady employment in roles like Topless Sex Slave No. 3 or Lady in Thong Languidly Ironing U.S. Currency...
...What kind of value are we talking about? According to research cited in the TEEB report, an annual investment of $45 billion to biodiversity conservation worldwide could safeguard about $5 trillion in ecosystem services - a benefit to cost ratio...
...Republika Srpska parliament passed a law creating the legal framework for holding a referendum. The thing that remains unclear, however, is what kind of referendum it would be - one that calls for independence outright, or one that asks a more veiled question. Many Bosnian Muslims, known as Bosniaks, say that doesn't matter - they see the mere act of holding a referendum as an intentional provocation. "It's meaningless in its substance," said Kurt Bassuener, of the Democratization Policy Council, a U.S.-based democracy advocacy group. "But the act is very meaningful." The Bosnian war, in fact, was sparked...