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...odd that they just didn't call these people? "Hello, it's Mandy, calling from the Customer Deservice Department. We'd like to have an engaging conversation about the quality of our product but there's no time, because your phone is going dead in 30 seconds. Have a nice...
...days a week from a cramped stall in the teeming Toi market of Nairobi, alongside vendors hawking everything from secondhand shoes to bicycle parts. The $2 a day she takes home allows her to send three of her 12 children to school, while her husband John seeks out odd domestic jobs in the middle-class estates within walking distance of their home. Thanks to her enterprising spirit and a community-savings scheme, she can obtain small loans to keep her business going or cover the costs of a family emergency. But Margaret knows no matter how hard she works...
...odd, isn't it? A fictional movie that is in some sense more literal and less haunting than the documentary version of the same story. Werner Herzog is a great and demanding filmmaker - sort of a Joseph Conrad for our time - and there is nothing notably wrong with Rescue Dawn. If you have the stomach for it, it will hold your attention. But it is still Little Dieter, toying with the unspoken enigmas of heroism, which elevates this tale to the level...
...odd aspects of the commutation is its timing. Normally, commutations or even pardons are not granted until after a sentence and judgment are final, meaning any appeals have been exhausted, according to Dan Farber, a professor at the University of California's Boalt Hall School of Law. "In a sense, then, the President is freezing something that was previously fluid," Farber said...
...Bullwinkle show (or, as it's called in a gay TV-porn collection Queer Duck owns, Rockhard & Bullsprinkle). And since that was the smartest pre-Simpsons cartoon series, I mean this as high praise indeed. For all its bitchiness, the movie manages to be frisky and genial. One last odd fact: Reiss is straight. "I write about [gay life] the way someone would write a Civil War novel," he told an interviewer for Planet Out. "I just research, research, research...