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...Chief among them are Shan's parents, Mrs. Gu, devastated by her loss, and Teacher Gu, bewildered by the nature and personality of the child he has fathered and retreating further into the arid haven of his intellect in order to cope with her demise. But there are less obvious people the death marks: Kai, a public announcer on a government radio station that spews out continuous propaganda; Kai's husband Han, a man on the make in the provincial government, who harbors dreams of greater influence; and Nini, a deformed girl, eldest of six daughters, who is nothing more...
...It’s obvious what we needed to do,” Bock said of the team’s offensive breakthrough in the second game. “It’s just a matter of playing with heart and getting it done...
...Obama Administration's public response to the launch was a genuflection to the obvious: any thought of directly engaging Pyongyang has been set aside, at least for now. Unlike Beijing, Obama didn't equivocate as to whether the launch was a violation of U.N. resolutions. But the resolution that Washington and Tokyo offered yesterday merely strengthened existing enforcement mechanisms, diplomats say. In other words, the cost to the North won't be too high, even if the Security Council agrees on further sanctions - which...
...most obvious example is driving. Americans drive too much, and they have good reason to do so. In the United States, gas tends to be two to three times cheaper than in Western Europe, since federal and state gas taxes in the U.S. are inefficiently low. Now that oil prices around the world have fallen, it would be the best time to gradually start raising gasoline taxes, which would limit gas consumption, pollution, and congestion as well as motivate people to move closer to work or to demand more public transportation. Unlike regulations or rations, higher taxes would not take...
...second film in “Tokyo!” is by far the most visually and substantively rich.This might be what makes Bong’s “Shaking Tokyo” seem like such a disappointment. His extreme—solitude—is the most obvious and the least satisfying. The unnamed hikikomori (Teruyuki Kagawa)—the shut-in—whose phobia of the outside world has kept him in a neatly-arranged, dimly-lit home for 11 years, is forced out into the world when he falls in love with a mysterious...