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...That is an interesting fact. Imagine that!" For example, he introduces us to George Vancouver and his crew on the Discovery, as they attempt to map out the lands of the Inside Passage in 1792. What Raban tells us is interesting food for conversation, a good story to lend a backdrop to his itinerary. But the implications of these narratives never run quite as deep as the sea itself...
According to the Globe, "Harvard officials and other sources yesterday confirmed the university's interest in a proposal to keep 'the Harvard plan' nonprofit through a money-raising deal involving major Boston teaching hospitals, the data processing company Perot Systems, and other investors... Investors are being asked to lend money in exchange for IOUs called 'surplus notes,' or surplus bonds...
...most developed of these plans, Harvard will lend its expertise to educate city administrators--a plan that has already won the support of Cambridge City Manager Robert A. Healy...
...Bush agree on many of their issues. They equally support America's blank check security guarantee to Taiwan. Both have come out in support of NATO's expansion. McCain has spoken in favor of the Bosnian and Kosovar campaigns while Bush one-ups him with his vague promises to lend "support" to "the Baltics, the Caucasus Central Asia and the Ukraine" by "promoting regional peace." And neither seems to have any qualms about the humanitarian implications of America's interventionism...
...this the confident hands of Hong Kong cinematographer Chris Doyle who paints the countryside of Baltimore with the lush landscapes it deserves, and really, the end result is a film that does not try to be ambitious, but merely to, without prejudice and malice, lend us an insight into growing up in a non-homogenous place. And this reviewer leaves the theatre with a smile on her face and an unknown aching in her heart. Like I said, what a very, very lovely film...