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...been a postwar model for U.S. involvement in Iraq. From April 2003 until last February, the city was under the command of the 101st Airborne Division, led by Lieut. General David Petraeus, who tried to be sensitive to local concerns. Several residents fondly recall particular soldiers by name. "Tell Mr. Anderson of the 101st Airborne that a Moslawi girl salutes him," says a schoolteacher. The 101st devoted itself to economic-development projects, including restarting a cement factory that had been one of the city's biggest employers. These days the local economy has stalled as foreign companies have fled. According...
Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance...
...woman in Miss Mitzi’s window who enticed Mr. Clark into class turns out to be Paulina (Jennifer Lopez), a dancer hiding out at the dance school as an instructor after being spurned by her lover and dance partner at the world’s top dance competition...
Still, Paulina eventually warms to “Mr. Clark” enough to dance a sultry rumba with him at the film’s aesthetic climax. It’s easy to relish their pairing, sharply choreographed and luxuriantly filmed in a suffusion of yellow light. It’s harder to understand what impelled Chelsom to edit the dance by periodically slowing motion to a crawl—a technique better suited for action sequences in films like The Matrix. Whenever it speeds up again Lopez’s neck whips across the screen, evoking back pain...
...don’t think I’m the first to have to explain the definition of the Weddoes’ song title, nor do I think I’m the first to notice how Morrissey subversively quips Catullus in the lyrics of “Frankly Mr. Shankly”—“I want to live and I want to love / I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of” is clear homage to Carmina 5’s famous “Vivamus atque amemus...