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...theatrical manner, the falsity of which the movie camera, dialing in for its close-ups (and even its two shots) exposes as relentlessly now as it did 69 years ago. No one ever gets to act - and this is a cast rich in good actresses - if by acting you mean the expression of authentic emotions. They are caught up in a zip-zap frenzy of words - and it is interesting how many lines in this script can be traced back to the Boothe original, which would not have been all that difficult to improve upon...
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...indeed incapacitated, dying or already dead, what might that that mean for Korean Peninsula, for 60 years now one of the most heavily militarized neighborhoods on the planet? Analysts and government sources insist his demise is unlikely to mean the collapse of the North Korean regime, at least in the short run - something which the North's two closest neighbors most emphatically do not want to see. As the analysts at the Control Risks Group say, "the regime's brutal authoritarianism may be repugnant, but its unraveling would raise questions the North's neighbors would much rather postpone." Neither China...
...President's announcement is an endorsement of recommendations by his chief commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, and it means two things: first, that the war in Iraq isn't going as swimmingly as the public believes; but second, that things in Afghanistan may not be as dire as commonly believed. After all, in the coming days Petraeus will take over as head of U.S. Central Command, which would make him responsible for the U.S. military in both countries - and given the limited number of troops available, he knows that any reinforcements sent to Afghanistan would mean pulling troops...