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...camp after a raid, Lee imposes a layer of complexity on the film, for George Clyde (Simon Baker) has a black slave, Daniel Holt (Jeffery Wright) in his company. Holt serves the confederate cause, and his unique position as a slave torn between loyalty for his master and boyhood friend, Clyde, and his desire for freedom, adds the most intriguing and ironic layer to the film...
...pouring rain half-naked and scream at the sky. I want to stop asking my boss if I can use the bathroom, and take a bus to the Pacific Coast in Mexico. I want to chip away at a wall for 19 years and watch as the final layer cracks and crumbles before my eyes. I want to reference a cinematic epiphany not from the "Shawshank Redemption...
...workers at 1.9 million work sites, would cost in the tens of billions, not $4.2 billion as the government states. But those favoring the regulations point out that for businesses, the prospect of paying an employee for half a year while he or she nurses a case of carpet layer's knee will be encouragement enough for them to clean up their acts...
...direct result of global warming. Still, the news does reflect several possibly scary trends. "We know that the amount of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere have increased dramatically and we know that temperatures are rising," says TIME environmental editor Charles Alexander. "With the thinning of the ice layer, there are so many signs of global warming that it only makes sense to take some action." One step for Congress: ratifying the emissions-control standards of the 1997 Kyoto Treaty. The measure has been stalled there ever since President Clinton signed it two years ago; the news from up north could...
...nose-first into a farm in rural Mina, S.D. The crash left their remains entombed in a 30-ft. by 40-ft. pit of muddy pasture. "It's like an archaeological dig," said Bob Benzon, the National Transportation Safety Board investigator leading the recovery. "We have to go down layer by layer." So far, the digging in the mud--and in the records of the jet and its flight--has only deepened the mystery of the tragedy...