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...lovely, then, to return to Zuma some months later and realize that it is not a claustrophobic hellhole of anemic heirs and glassy-eyed "It" girls: it is, in fact, a highly inviting venue with plenty of light and elbow room, serving spectacularly fresh and creative dishes that typify modern, Japanese-influenced cuisine at its best...
...westerns that are surfacing now can do so only because some potent actor like Pitt invests his cachet in producing an epic-size movie on an indie-film budget ($30 million or so for Jesse James). Or because two boutique studios chip in for a modern western revenge film, as Paramount Vantage and Miramax did for Joel and Ethan Coen's smart, violent, defiantly quirky No Country for Old Men, coming in November. Or when a director with a hit movie on his résumé charms financiers outside the studio. That's how James Mangold, fresh from Walk the Line...
Then there's the problem of tempo. Other modern movies move at warp speed, but the cowboy hero is a man with a slow hand. As Christopher Frayling, author of biographies of Eastwood and Leone, notes, "You can speed up spaceships and cars, but you can't speed up horses." A director also has a tough time making the old new--and the western is 19th century. "Americans don't like the past," says Andrew Dominik, the New Zealand-born writer-director of Jesse James. "They're O.K. with future and the present, but they can't remember anything before...
...largest and most well known private security contractor is Blackwater USA. “Security professionals” is the term that Blackwater prefers when describing its employees, many of whom are former special operations personnel from U.S. military branches. However, critics often refer to these professionals as modern-day mercenaries; soldiers-for-hire who retired or are cherry-picked from the military by Blackwater and firms like it, often attracted by the higher wages and comparatively lax disciplinary standards.This is not to say that the government should never contract out services to the lowest bidder in order to streamline...
...Peace.” But there is Government 1730, “War and Politics.” Continue browsing and you’ll find Government 90sp, “The Future of War”; Historical Study A-12, “Conflict and Cooperation in the Modern World”; Government 1732, “The Origins of Modern Wars”; Government 2782, “State Failure and Civil War”; Historical Study B-53, “World War and Global Transformation in the 20th Century”; History...