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...interest of full disclosure, in its final stretch From Paris With Love is inadvertently hilarious (Rhys Meyers gets most of the intended laughs; he's halfway to good in this mess). The dramatic climax involving a beautiful suicide bomber is particularly funny. The revelation that she is bad to the bone leads to great bafflement on the part of her former fiancé, who is crushed by her betrayal. "She never talked about her life, and I never thought to ask," he says. Could screenwriter Adi Hasak possibly have come up with a better line illustrating the depth of this...
...there is something emotionally exhausted about Dear John. The cruel twist of fate is constructed out of nothing, laboriously maneuvered into place and then just left there, an illogical mess dampening all romance. This isn't a love story, it's a misery story that drags on, not to a dramatic conclusion but a tepid moment. Hallstrom and screenwriter Jamie Linden want to be true to Sparks' original sadistic ending, but they also want to leave the happiness door ever so slightly ajar. The result is a sense of "Huh? That's it?" (See the best movies of the decade...
...case in Manhattan, and bipartisan congressional opposition to a civilian trial for KSM anywhere else, has Democrats inside and outside the Administration wondering about the Attorney General's standing in the White House. Justice officials insist that Holder is working closely with the White House to fix the KSM mess. But other officials see parallels between Holder's predicament and that of Obama's former top White House lawyer, Greg Craig, who fought to implement Obama's campaign-trail positions on counterterrorism but fell out of favor when they became politically unpopular after Obama took office. Holder "is getting...
...memoir Speech-less, Matt Latimer, a speechwriter for both Rumsfeld and Bush, describes Gates as "our Winston Wolf," the Harvey Keitel character in Pulp Fiction who comes to dispose of the bodies and take care of the bloody mess after an accidental killing. "Wolf was a case study of robotic efficiency, overseeing an elaborate cleanup while calmly drinking a cup of coffee," writes Latimer. "That's what President Bush wanted - a cold-blooded competent cleaner...
...Tymoshenko by 10 percentage points. Yanukovych is a rags-to-riches figure - he was jailed twice in his youth for assault and robbery - who relies on the pro-Russian east and south of the country for support. His strategy this time round has been simple: remind voters of the mess the country is in and point the finger at his opponents. "Precisely while the orange government has been running the country, Ukraine gained one of the leading places in the world in terms of corruption," he told TIME in a recent interview. (The problem actually predates Yushchenko - Ukraine ranked 122nd...