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...farmers' daily round is tied to the land, but their dreams are not. They can never buy their 10-acre plots, only lease them from indigenous Fijians, and the uncertainties of tenure and income mean even those who spend all their lives in Fiji seldom feel entirely at home. Almost everyone pictured in Stopover has relatives overseas or hopes to emigrate. "No country needs a sugar-cane cutter," Connew says, but other countries might want the cane cutter's accountant daughter or engineer son. Even in the holidays, Dharmen expects his sons to toil at maths and English; once they...
Hard to believe, but the biggest college pigskin plotline of the season has included a team from Division I-AA, I mean, the Football Championship Subdivision. Eh…I-AA. When Appalachian State knocked off a fifth-ranked Michigan team in Ann Arbor two weeks ago, and the pundits immediately started ranking it among the greatest upsets in the sport’s history, the ugly sister of college football was thrust into the spotlight...
...nomination; Al Gore and John Kerry won Iowa in 2000 and 2004 and prevailed on the Democratic side. But in a multicandidate field in Iowa, which it looks as if we'll have for both parties, a few thousand votes--a few hundred votes--could well mean the difference between first place and second and third or, for that matter, third and fifth. And such a small difference could be utterly decisive for who survives and who gets knocked out, who has momentum and who falters...
VEDDER: See, I love it. I need it. I'm a better person because of it. I mean, I feel really blessed even to have had the opportunity of disappearing on an island or something and not seeing anybody for weeks. It makes me somebody that somebody else could live with. That's another thing, when you talk about the environment and how precious it is: it makes us better people...
McCandless doesn't come off as a saint in the movie. I mean, he won't call his parents even though they're desperate to hear from him. He's angry...