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...paradigm of national security is changing,” he said. “No longer can states presume to provide for their security and well being without regard for the security of others in more distant lands...
Strange leaps through time and space make the movie-in-a-movie get confusing very quickly. While an interesting paradigm, it ends up seeming like a cheap trick to avoid the obvious question—why is a man in his forties never known for his attractiveness playing a twenty-something heartthrob? After a reporter asks Darin whether he isn’t too old to play himself as a younger man, Darin’s brother in law responds by asking, “How can you be too old to play yourself...
Melissa Dell is the paradigm of the athlete-scholar, well-rounded and academically outstanding—basically, what all Harvard students strive to be. She’s even humble about it. In the end, Dell says, “it comes down to what you’re really passionate about and what you believe.” It’d be trite coming from anyone else, but Dell somehow makes it sincere...
...sorts of projects which Internet cafe owners are in no position to provide and which telecom companies can’t afford as long as they’re losing money to VoIP—are essential if the economic growth in the country is to be a lasting paradigm...
...some semisuccessful attempts have been made to accommodate the events of Sept. 11 within a conventional literary novel; Joyce Maynard's The Usual Rules and Nicholas Rinaldi's Between Two Rivers slink to mind. But there's something missing, something about the paradigm-pulverizing force of the war on terrorism that is simply not conveyable in the old forms. For a glimpse of the new word order, you could do a lot worse than pick up Lorraine Adams' endlessly fascinating, curiously disorienting debut thriller, Harbor (Knopf; 292 pages...