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...plenty of problems." Gordimer's Get a Life, published this month in Britain and the U.S., is a good example. It's the story of Paul Bannerman, an ecologist and antinuclear campaigner in his mid-thirties who, ironically, becomes temporarily radioactive after treatment for thyroid cancer. This "lit-up leper" is a menace to his young son and his wife, an advertising executive. So he moves into an empty wing of his parents' home. The situation is ripe for satire, but Gordimer has more serious plans. As Paul struggles to recover, his country and his family fall apart. High-stakes...
...regularly donned a uniform when coaching Little League and once spent a week of vacation at the Philadelphia Phillies fantasy baseball camp. The White House, says Democratic strategist Joel Johnson, "has accomplished the task of getting beyond the base problem in a way that has not completely lit the opposition on fire." A disappointed Democrat summed up the problem this way: "He's a nice guy, and he doesn't drool...
...reimagining the world. Often the peace must actually be made before people will embrace the idea. We do not know -- and may not know for months or years -- how good these four will be as storytellers. Of course, it is possible that the year's peacemaking has merely lit a couple of candles on an altar that has been dedicated for centuries -- and is still dedicated -- to human sacrifice on an Aztec scale. Blessed are the peacemakers, and few in number. Still, in the words of Dominique Moisi, deputy director of the French Institute of International Relations: ''The fact that...
...soldiers go home, it’s clear the Marine Corps has been a cocktease and a cheap date; it dehumanized and psychologically damaged its men. Although Mendes references ideas from other war movies, he donates new ones to the genre. When the soldiers march through a night lit only by oil well fires, he gives us a harrowing tableau just as apocalyptic as anything Coppola imagined. However, Mendes is hamstrung by a weak script. Few of the characters get the development they deserve. Gyllenhaal does a serviceable job of slowly going insane, and Sarsgaard is searing; he?...
...other tourists do appear to be checking out of their hotels. There is fear in the air. At the Namaskar Hotel, one of the brightly lit, dingy hotels in Paharganj, the hotel worker at the desk nervously tells one of his staff: "I hear the police think the terrorists are staying in one of these hotels right here, do you know that...