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...hundreds of e-mails a day now. It's a very busy and stressful time at the moment; we have had a massive load of membership requests...
...Tarantino bounds onstage with the sort of animal and intellectual energy seen in few films here this year. Without much prodding from Ciment, he pinwheels opinions, more or less praising the new flop movie Speed Racer (bravo, brave Q.T.!), and railing against film composers, coming in at the last moment to "save" a film with their intrusive underscoring: "Who the f--- is this guy, throwin' his sh-t over my movie...
...Nation's Agony If the crisis had a defining moment, it came on May 19 at 2:28 p.m., exactly a week after the Wenchuan quake, named for the county at the epicenter. That was when the entire country paused for three minutes to remember the dead. Traffic came to a halt, flags were lowered to half staff and Chinese everywhere stood in oft tearful silence. Drivers honked car horns and factories blared their sirens in mass keening. The ritual marked the start of three days of national mourning during which Internet activities such as online gaming were halted...
...normal year, Australia's 2,000 rice farmers produce about 1.2 million metric tons of the grain. This year's harvest was a paltry 18,000 tons - the lowest yield since 1927, when the country's rice industry was four years old. "Frustration is the common feeling at the moment," says Gordon, president of the Ricegrowers' Association of Australia. "We think we're really good food producers. But at the moment we're not producing any food...
...voters who may feel that that, once more, a man had deprived a woman of a sure thing - voters Obama would need in the fall. That's partly party psychological war, of course, but it seemed to have some impact as the Obama camp toned down its Mission Accomplished moment in Iowa...