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...runaway train - murders, gun fights, chases, torture sessions, follow one another in dizzying succession - in contrast to most such films, which tend to focus on people standing around looking dour and anxious while moodily plotting to blow up the munitions train. Most significantly, perhaps, it is directed by Paul Verhoeven, who achieved both controversial success (Basic Instinct) and near-universal condemnation (Showgirls) for his hard-driving, raunch-laden American exercises in big-budget sex and violence...
...That's not a thought movies especially like to entertain. And its not one we expect to hear from Paul Verhoeven, who was drummed out of Hollywood for committing the town's only unforgivable sin: making controversial, high profile movies whose box office performances were not worth their trouble. In such circumstances it's simple to read Black Book as a possibly desperate attempt at a comeback, a retreat to his native land and to the sort of material with which he first established his international reputation, Soldier of Orange, his 1977 resistance drama of a much more conventional kind...
...three times more likely to use drugs and engage in criminal behavior. Last month, an Israeli study reported that children with absent fathers were more likely to have trouble forming new relationships, whether the absences were permanent or shorter term. When children reach school age, Australian psychologist Paul Amato found, fathers are even more important to self-esteem than mothers...
...With the orange forces badly fractured, Yanukovych has forged a remarkable comeback. The metal, coal and chemical magnate hired Paul Manafort, a veteran Washington political consultant who has advised numerous prominent U.S. Republicans, to help shape his image. Yanukovych has emphasized orange revolution failings like administration infighting, sporadic food and fuel shortages, and soaring inflation. The strategy worked: in the 2006 Rada elections, Yanukovych's Party of the Regions came in first, carrying 32% of the vote...
JUSTICE JOHN PAUL STEVENS, writing for the majority in the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling that found that the Environmental Protection Agency violated the Clean Air Act by not limiting heat-trapping greenhouse gases in vehicle emissions; the court said the EPA has the power to regulate those pollutants...