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...wait a minute. Redbelt contains even more plot than that, too much of it, I think, for a film of quite modest length to carry comfortably. It feels to me a little rushed and breathless, despite the fact that it is generally well-played and is beautifully photographed in a low-key burnished light by Robert Elswit, who just won an Oscar for There Will be Blood. This cram-it-all-in manner is particularly surprising given that the film is obviously a labor of love for Mamet, who tells us in a director's statement that he has spent...
...economic boom. Together, Abhishek's parents - his mother Sunita is a clerk in a local government office in the northern city of Farrukhabad, his father Sunil works in a small clothes shop - make just under $200 a month, no fortune but enough to buy a small TV for their modest home. They would have bought a motorbike too, Sunil says, perhaps even a patch of land somewhere, were it were not for the hospital bills that never seem...
...them,” Adelman says. If memories of afterparties with Grammy-winning artists are any indication of Adelman’s social style, it’s safe to say she likes a good time. One might think she would be frustrated by Harvard’s more modest party scene, but Adelman characteristically keeps her cool. “Stressful about your social life—that’s something I’ll never be,” she laughs. “Have a little faith.” The clock reads...
...remote enclaves by sects of Mormon fundamentalists. The rest of the country was both appalled and fascinated after Texas authorities raided the Yearning for Zion (YFZ) ranch in Eldorado, Texas, on April 3, gawking at the sight of women seemingly dressed for Little House on the Prairie, whose modest appearance was jarring with their sexually aberrant lifestyle. First came the jokes, then some hard realities sank in. Hundreds of children were being separated from the only families they ever knew. Shuttled from one temporary facility to another, they are now being dispersed throughout Texas' already overtaxed foster-care system, from...
...well. What's more, Sheeran says, "I would say over the medium to long term I am an optimist because the world knows how to grow enough food." The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization predicts that cereal production will once again increase in 2008, and bring at least a modest reduction in food prices. "As always, if you take [all the world's] food and divide it by the world's population, there's more than enough for everyone," says Steve Wiggins, an agricultural economist at the U.K.-based think tank Overseas Development Institute, and author of a recent report...