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...Reygadas dramatizes this with small, telling gestures in long-take shots of the countryside, using the wide screen to place the land's natural beauty against the internal conflicts of the three main participants. The director also constructs elaborate pairs of sequences, one toward the beginning of Silent Light, the other toward the end. The opening dawn is the prelude to the closing dusk (which consumes the film's last five minutes); a church service precedes a wake; a passionate kiss of love is followed by the restorative kiss of life...
...level predicted in a poll of 30 economists by the news agency Bloomberg. It was the first increase in joblessness since February 2006. "The economic crisis has reached the labor market," said Frank-Juergen Weise, head of the Labor Agency. On Thursday, the government reported that German exports, the main driver of the country's economy, plunged 10.6% in November from the month before, the largest monthly decline since 1969. Joerg Kraemer, a Commerzbank economist, says the data support a bleak outlook on the overall economy. "We continue to expect German GDP to decline between 2% and 3% this year...
...Merkel faces a re-election fight in September. Her main opponents are her current partners in government, the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Both parties will be measured by their response to the financial crisis. An early test comes on Jan. 18, when the first of several key state and municipal elections takes place in Hesse. According to polls, Merkel's CDU has a good chance of beating the SPD. It was against this political backdrop that Merkel this week dropped her vehement opposition to cutting taxes, under pressure from allies within her conservative alliance. "The people expect tax relief," said...
First it was Wall Street that was in trouble. Then Main Street. Now, the nightmare is approaching Elm Street. Even in my relatively placid little corner of the world - a leafy, middle-class, middle-American neighborhood with two- and three-bedroom brick and stone homes built in the 1920s and '30s - it is hard not to feel jittery as 2009 begins...
...what's different now? Mubarak's apparent pledge to tighten controls along Egypt's border with Gaza - with the implicit goal of preventing Hamas from building new missiles to strike Israel with. That appears designed to fulfill Israel's main condition for ending its offensive: rendering Hamas incapable of firing missiles into Israel, through either military defeat or an effective arms embargo. And while Israel hasn't officially accepted the Sarkozy-Mubarak plan, its response to the proposal contrasts with its earlier vows to fight on. "Israel welcomes the initiative of the French President and the Egyptian President to bring...