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...Sandrine Bonnaire successfully portrays the anguish of a woman trapped in a world she cannot accept. We sympathize, but can't help feeling she is responsible for her misfortunes. Marie stubbornly refuses to understand there is no easy solution to her predicament; the Soviet authorities will not permit her to return to France. Ultimately, the fault lies with Wargnier. He has created a character of heroic proportions, a woman who endures unimaginable hardships, years of exile in a forced labor camp, to escape Soviet Russia. In the process, he has deprived his protagonist of a more human face...
...Toledo battle is less about policy than leadership style. Both men are committed to a program of economic reform and liberalization, but Toledo is challenging the president's increasingly authoritarian grip on power. Indeed, Fujimori's own constitution allows only two presidential terms, but he found a loophole to permit himself a third, and his supporters in Congress dismissed the constitutional court judges who demurred. But despite the strong public support he won in the early '90s for reining in inflation and facing down two leftist guerrilla insurgencies, many voters have turned against Fujimori. "The economy is stagnating with some...
...laws of physics permit time travel, even in principle? They may in the subatomic world. A positron (the antiparticle associated with the electron) can be considered to be an electron going backward in time. Thus, if we create an electron-positron pair and the positron later annihilates in a collision with another, different electron, we could view this as a single electron executing a zigzag, N-shaped path through time: forward in time as an electron, then backward in time as a positron, then forward in time again as an electron...
...Illingworth said PSLM had received a permit to rally in the afternoon but did not have permission to occupy the Yard at night...
McGrath doesn't plant herself in the captain's chair. She roams the bridge, chatting up her crew, her arms crossed or on her hips. And she has struck a deal with her crew. They can drive the ship--something not all commanders permit--as long as they keep her fully informed about what's happening. McGrath's job requires her to discipline a handful of sailors every month for infractions ranging from unauthorized absences to drug use. She resists the temptation to prove that she can be just as tough as a male commander...