Word: mereness
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...fancy. And this is a perfectly legitimate question, given the bewildering array of sights, sounds, and experiences that Evans presents to the viewer, a pastiche that seems almost impossible to make sense of. But the truth is much more complicated, and potentially even more insidious, than mere meaninglessness...
...without listening very carefully, you can hear its echo throughout Friday Night Lights: In Odessa, football is a way of life. And, as is quickly shown, the only way of life for residents of this small Texas town, where state champions become legends and those who fall short become mere pariahs rejected even within their own families. Though American society worships successful professional athletes, the cult following earned by 17-year old high school seniors is for the most part less widespread. Director and co-writer Peter Berg rightly devotes more time to the Panthers’ trials in their...
...That rapid improvement in security - which has not been achieved without risk or heroism - is looking like the easy part. The next step is into uncharted territory. Now, with the military component reduced to a mere 78 personnel, and a reborn police force under the close watch of foreign advisers, the mission's youthful bureaucrats are taking charge of battered economic and development institutions. The economy has gone steadily backward: per-capita income has fallen 50% since independence in 1978. The ethnic tensions and brutality of 1998-2003 masked a chronic illness in Solomon Islands, for which there...
...helicopter flies, the Weather Coast, on Guadalcanal's south, is a mere 50 km from Honiara. But the region is not accessible by road. Forget radio communications - life is as isolated as it comes in these parts, known for climatic anarchy and wild-eyed lunatic Harold Keke, who is now in custody, accused of several atrocities during the tensions. At Vunusa, a treacherous jungle walk or short river wade (your choice) from the Isuna police post, community chief Philip Limaihado is briskly leading visitors through vegetable gardens, past a thatched shed that is a church, and into a small settlement...
...soon to tell whether all these efforts will pay off. But there are some signs that the chasm is beginning to narrow. Among fourth-graders, for example, 92% of whites met state reading standards last year, and so did nearly 70% of their black classmates, up from a mere 35% three years ago. Nonetheless, superintendent Fornero gives Ann Arbor's performance only a grade of C because "some people still don't believe we have a problem." Until they do, he says, the path to an A will be long and uphill...