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Though there has been some good news on the economic front lately, with unemployment dipping to 6.4%, its lowest since 1992, tough questions for the country's future remain unresolved. Italy is hobbled by a chronic lack of economic and social mobility, an unsustainable pension system and public debt that stands at 106% of GDP. Illegal immigration is exploding while birth rates are among the lowest in Europe. Intractable poverty and organized crime remain endemic across the southern half of the country...
...actor," says Damon, who reprises his role as conflicted assassin Jason Bourne for the third movie in the series. Luckily, Damon and Greengrass share a shorthand from collaborating on the second Bourne film, as well as certain personality traits unusual in their trade, like flexibility and a lack of ego. And in a Hollywood besotted with robots and wizards, this actor-director team shares something rarer still: Damon and Greengrass are virtuosos of realism...
...angst with long, lingering takes and a paucity of dialogue and action. Critics hailed him as the "hero of the highbrows." But average moviegoers were so confused they once reputedly chased him at the Cannes Film Festival, demanding plot explanations. Antonioni was content with his brainy reputation--and his lack of mass appeal. "I could never do something against my tastes to meet the public," he once told a reporter. "I do it for an ideal spectator who is very like this director...
...think his films have eternal relevance, because his films deal with the difficulty of personal relationships and lack of communication between people and religious aspirations and mortality--existential themes that will be relevant 1,000 years from now. When many of the things that are successful and trendy today have been long relegated to musty-looking antiques, his stuff will still be great...
...difficult to fathom the extent to which the current U.S. Administration has gone to perpetrate clearly unconstitutional behavior in order to secure power [July 16]. What's even more surprisaing is how removed the American public is from the systemic constitutional affronts that have taken place. The lack of national uproar over the commutation of Libby's sentence for heinous crimes reflects that indifference. At the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Benjamin Franklin was asked, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" He said, "A republic, if you can keep it." I certainly hope...