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This plot chugs on parallel tracks, with flashbacks set in Charles' childhood. The career scenes are shot in high-contrast graininess, the early ones in a pellucid sunlight that Charles would soon lose sight of. Those vignettes--his brother drowning as Charles stands paralyzed, his mother sobbing heedlessly on the boy's coffin--have an indelible poignancy. On one radiant afternoon, Charles, now nearly blinded by glaucoma, listens to and memorizes the music of a cricket, a clopping horse and, breathing softly nearby, his mother. "I hear you too, Mama," the child says...
...told his debriefer he tried to understand Western culture by watching U.S. movies and listening to Voice of America broadcasts. He loved Ernest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea because he read in the tale of the brave but failed fisherman a parallel to his own struggles. "Even a hollow victory was by his reckoning a real one," the report says. Far more worried about Iran, Saddam did not consider the U.S. a "natural adversary" and throughout the '90s, he had his officials make overtures for a dialogue with the U.S. He said he was disappointed that...
...series of reviews on its adherence to democratic practice and respect for minority rights. A positive result will lead to "final status" talks in mid-2005, the U.N. says. Those talks will include the government in Belgrade, where leaders there are notably unenthusiastic. Hard-line politicians are strengthening "parallel institutions" such as schools and hospitals in majority Serb areas to undermine Pristina's authority. Once talks begin, many Albanians expect Belgrade to push for partition of the province, leaving the majority Serb areas in the north under its control. But Albanians reject the idea. Western diplomats are also reluctant...
...stripped him of his usual self-consciousness and he's the more appealing for it. In this sense nothing in his campaign became him like the leaving it, and his speech is magnanimous, though this is a pleasing tradition in Australian politics - in what must have been some parallel universe, Howard gave just such a speech as the loser of the 1987 poll. After promising to "see you again," Latham is gone and guests stream for the exit. This party, which never really got going, is over...
...were kicking around these ideas on how to organize a peer-to-peer network and these papers started coming out that were exploring similar ideas,” Wilken said. “It’s interesting that our work was going on parallel to other companies...