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...there is something emotionally exhausted about Dear John. The cruel twist of fate is constructed out of nothing, laboriously maneuvered into place and then just left there, an illogical mess dampening all romance. This isn't a love story, it's a misery story that drags on, not to a dramatic conclusion but a tepid moment. Hallstrom and screenwriter Jamie Linden want to be true to Sparks' original sadistic ending, but they also want to leave the happiness door ever so slightly ajar. The result is a sense of "Huh? That's it?" (See the best movies of the decade...
...continued threat of terrorism. In reality, however, there will always be something that arguably outweighs the repeal of DADT in terms of importance, and the presence of these other issues in no way diminishes the pressing need to abolish this anachronistic form of discrimination, which has no place in the world of today, much less the United States. Just as the Civil Rights movement, for instance, was not deterred by the “heavier issue” of the Vietnam War and the ensuing civil unrest, so too the repeal of DADT must not be derailed by the existence...
...wildly inappropriate, terribly disrespectful, and downright mean, and I don’t know where it came from. I would like to think that I am not just a sucker for schadenfreude and that instead the hysterics were partially the result of feeling out of place in the devout setting. Or partially because of the irony that “Emanuel” is also the name of my temple back home. Or maybe it was just an expression of pure immaturity. I really don’t know. Regardless, it was a jolly service indeed...
...don’t think politics has to be either a zero-sum game or a place where you have to give something up,” Witzler said. “There’s not a finite piece of pie that has to be split...
...graduate student from northern Tehran. If escape is not possible - as appears to be the case for Jack, Hurley and Kate - then at least our trapped heroes can live in paradise, even if a smoke monster or the occasional polar bear threatens their existence. "If this story had taken place in Siberia, then nobody would have watched," says Masoud, a 28-year-old engineer from Tehran. The point is for the viewer to be able to escape, even if the characters cannot. "Today an Iranian says to himself, I've got Internet, I've got satellite, I've got money...