Word: path
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...period a day, just like English. Catalonia, one of the richest provinces in Spain, will actually give less tax money to the rest of Spain. Additionally, Catalonia will gain more control over immigration into the region from outside Spain. Reforms upon reforms are leading the region down the path toward independence. And Catalonia’s inhabitants already have a sense of deeply rooted nationalism, despite not being an independent state. One night here, I escaped Catalán in a local bar filled half with foreigners and half with locals. I sought to get away from the ubiquitous language...
...driving charge in Malibu, Calif. "I want to apologize specifically to everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words that I said," the Passion of the Christ director said in a statement, adding that he would like to meet with Jewish leaders to "discern the appropriate path for healing...
...recover the goodwill of the public at large, and the Jewish and Hollywood communities specifically, Gibson has a long road ahead, say several image makers. The arduous path to redemption looks something like this...
From the 1993 World Trade Center bombing to Sept. 11, 2001, Path follows characters like John O'Neill (Harvey Keitel), the FBI agent who pursued bin Laden for years and died in Tower 2, and Kirk, a composite of CIA officers whose warnings--to get bin Laden in the 1990s, to better support the Taliban's enemies--went unheeded. (Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush appear only in news clips.) Over six hours, we see the signals missed, the officials obsessed with protocol and covering their backsides and the best intentions stymied by bureaucracy, fate and the complexity...
...political take, however, pales next to the chagrin of watching Path move inexorably toward its climax. The last few minutes--inside the planes, the towers and the conference rooms on 9/11--are tastefully handled, though no less chilling. But they're beside the point. What matters is what happened before and what happened--and didn't--afterward. An epilogue notes the commission's report card, issued last December, which found that most of its recommendations--securing weapons of mass destruction, delegating antiterrorism funds by risk--have been carried out badly...