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...clearest lesson from Katrina is that plans are not enough. They must be put into practice. Preparation matters. Even in the chaos of 1918, people who knew what to expect and had been trained did their duty, often in heroic fashion. San Francisco was the only major city in which the local leadership told the truth about the disease. It organized emergency hospitals, volunteer ambulance drivers, soup kitchens and the like in advance. There, although fear certainly showed itself, it did not paralyze. If we prepare well enough, we won't need heroes; we'll just need people doing their...
...year? Miller knows the odds are against him. If only he had bought those oil and gas stocks, he laments, "we'd be nicely ahead of the market now." For once, he understands how hapless the market makes the rest of us feel, but in Miller's case, that lesson in humility may prove as ephemeral as the gathering gloom over the price...
Strathairn’s costars complement his stoic resolve with vividly emotional performances, making “Good Night, and Good Luck” an unusually entertaining civics lesson. Ray Wise gives a particularly nuanced portrayal of the human costs incurred by political witch-hunts, and Robert Downey Jr. and Patricia Clarkson are superb in a bittersweet romantic subplot...
Well, for starters, the movie never tries to shove a lesson down your throat, and is driven not by characters’ quest to attain a moral high ground, but simply works as a nicely warped whodunit. Cinephiles will appreciate the homages to classic horror flicks sprinkled throughout the script. And if for no other reason, keep in mind that as hand-drawn animation quickly disappearing from screens, Wallace and Gromit may be the final vestiges of a manifestly man-made medium all too quickly succumbing to machinery...
...treaty framework, ElBaradei believes that strengthening it remains the only plausible course of action because no single country or group of countries enjoys sufficient international trust. "You can't just bomb your way into every country that you suspect of harboring WMD," he said. "You need a system. The lesson of Iraq is that you need to have a working system in place...