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...Andi and Bruce's kindly social-services caseworker Bernie (Don Cheadle, who could have phoned this in but didn't) would like to keep the siblings together, they live in fear of being sent to separate foster homes. The parallel between the human strays and their canine counterparts is obvious but sweet...
...disorder and chaos follow. The lack of male role models perpetuate the problem and leave women and children emotionally and physically vulnerable. For anyone who bothers to walk the unforgiving streets of the poorest black neighborhoods in any mid-sized or large city in the United States, this is obvious...
...long into Murphy's visit before Torres' reason for getting Botox becomes obvious: his wife stands inches away, urging him to get as many injections as possible. And she gets so excited when the doctor suggests erasing the furrowed brow lines in addition to the "11s" between her husband's eyebrows that she throws up her hands in victory. "Thank God!" she yells. "They drive me insane. It's like when somebody has a big zit on the side of their face and they don't pop it. Just pop it!" She had already persuaded Torres to dye his hair...
...Revolutionary propaganda notwithstanding, the failure of the revolution in Cuba is, at this point, obvious. A dictatorship subservient to the U.S. was replaced by one momentarily subservient to the Soviet Union, and consistently subservient to itself. In a move reminiscent of monarchical succession, Fidel Castro gave up power to none other than his brother Raúl two years ago. Despite the deleterious effects of the economic blockade on the island in place since John F. Kennedy’s administration, the regime’s economic decisions have not created tangible benefits beyond healthcare and literacy. Poverty remains widespread, education...
...obvious solution would be some kind of independent arbiter to establish performance measures and evaluate stimulus projects for timeliness and tails as well as competitiveness and carbon. During his campaign, Obama proposed an infrastructure bank that wouldn't finance projects that don't produce economic or environmental returns. But Oberstar hasn't put in 45 years just to cede power to a commission. "It's like turning around a battleship," Puentes says. "And we just don't have the time...