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...represents something of a p.r. nightmare to the drug companies, the trial concerns a principle they deem sacrosanct - that in the market economics of the pharmaceutical industry, profit remains the only incentive for the development of new cures. It's a compelling argument, of course, within its own logic (even though its critics like to point out that some of the AIDS drugs, such as protease inhibitors, were originally developed in taxpayer-funded institutions). But it's difficult to fault the drug companies for behaving according to corporate logic, which is based, above all else, on the profit motive...
...psychotic park dweller known as the Caveman (Samuel L. Jackson) is afflicted with "brain typhoons" and visions of "moth-seraphs." That gives him just the intuition needed to sleuth out a murder case involving a chic photographer (Colm Feore) of the Mapplethorpe stripe. The Caveman has lapses of logic, but fewer than you will find in George Dawes Green's improbable script. Despite Jackson's typically bravura turn, this Valentine massacre marks a step backward for the gifted director of Eve's Bayou...
...scream or a giggle. (Yuen also loves the comic possibilities of physical blemishes, like warts and buck teeth.) But Yuen is only observing the cardinal rule in Hong Kong: these are moving pictures. And an action choreographer is bound to keep the action coming, at whatever cost to logic or taste...
...seemed that nearly all stories began at the beginning (or even "In the beginning..."). They ended at The End. Then came the 20th century. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan stepped down the opening sentence of Ulysses, Gregor Samsa woke up a cockroach, and nothing was the same anymore. The dream logic of surrealism, the theater of the absurd, the shock edits of the French New Wave all followed. Soon you could have an ape-man throw a bone in the air and--blink--it's an orbiting spaceship...
...only interim agreements for the foreseeable future. Sharon ultimately believes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can't be resolved. Instead, it should be be managed to the extent that the interests of leaders on both sides converge in pursuit of stability. And Labor's leaders appear ready to embrace that logic - on the campaign trail they'd insisted that a final peace deal was within reach of a few more weeks of intense negotiation; now they're saying there's no chance of a deal and that they might as well settle into a unity government, arguing that their presence will...