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...existential blahs that critic Andrew Sarris called "Antoniennui." For audiences unable to get on the director's wavelength or into his measured rhythm, seeing his characters suffer in slow motion was like watching paint dry. Movies were supposed to move, not slouch against a wall, and the pace of Antonioni's movies was a special test for the antsy...
...admit that before going, I was skeptical--I had New Orleans fatigue. I felt as if I had heard and read enough about Katrina. But from conversations with everyone from Mayor Ray Nagin to jazz great Terence Blanchard, I learned that New Orleanians were deeply disturbed by the pace of reconstruction and how that effort was being ignored by the rest of America. From the boat tour we took of the waterways outside the city, where we saw firsthand how human activity was destroying the wetlands, to the plane ride that revealed how oil and gas canals had changed...
...embattled Gonzales' grip on his job seems unshakable. Bush tossed Donald Rumsfeld last fall despite support from conservatives for the then Defense Secretary, and the President chucked Joint Chiefs Chairman Peter Pace at the first sign of congressional resistance to his renomination. So why the extraordinary support for Gonzales in the face of a protracted meltdown at the Department of Justice (DOJ)? Here are four reasons why Bush can't afford to let Gonzales...
...Life on this grassy plateau of cattle ranches and apple orchards moves at a different pace than in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, just a few hours drive away. Israel once viewed the Golan's strategic cliffs as a safeguard against a Syrian armored invasion, but they appear to have as effectively deterred a different kind of invasion - one of Israel's sprawling suburbs, fast food chains and traffic jams...
Amount by which Democrats have out-raised Republicans so far in the 2008 campaign. Dems are on pace to win the money race for the White House and Congress for the first time since the government began keeping track...