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...There is a place now reserved for their bones, a burial ground in Beijing dedicated to those who have died for their lost causes. A row of 14 unkempt graves lies near a railroad track, a tiny plot of earth too isolated for anyone but petitioners to claim. Some of those buried here had committed suicide out of despair, including one man who last April threw himself in front of a train just meters away from his eventual grave. Others succumbed to disease after living in flimsy shacks through Beijing's frigid winters. "I wonder if their families even know...
This is the time the Democrats have long dreaded, the scenario they knew they could not avoid. It is that moment in every Hollywood cliff-hanger when the star gets within sight of a happy ending, only to find another twist in the plot. Yes, they have produced a presumptive nominee for President, and he has risen dramatically in the polls against George W. Bush. But just as John Kerry is getting ready to enter the winner's circle, his bank account is depleted and he's just beginning to refill his coffers. Meanwhile, his opponent, who has spent only...
...plot, such as it is, begins with the introduction of Matthew (Leonardo DiCaprio look-alike Michael Pitt) encountering Isabelle (Eva Green) and Theo (Louis Garrel) at the protest of the closing of the French cinematheque, the classic movie theater where those three cinephiles had spent many an afternoon. Soon, Matthew has been invited to stay at Isabelle and Theo’s house while their parents are away and movie inspired sexual games ensue...
...this all sounds rather silly and outdated, it is. Except for the president’s Karl Rove-like political advisor, Mooseport’s plot and characters could all have been written half a century ago. While the movie’s male figures are all bumbling egotists, their female counterparts’ common sense and perpetual looks of exasperation are just as boring and one-dimensional. Marcia Gay Harden gives the film’s best performance in the single scene that allows her to show a little personality. Christine Baranski, who must be getting sick of playing...
...Okui was sent with his father and two brothers to the Manzanar War Relocation Center, a Japanese internment camp set on a windswept square-mile plot at the foot of California's Sierra Nevada, 220 miles north of Los Angeles. He spent three years there, living in tarpaper-covered barracks, where privacy could be eked out only by stringing sheets between bunks. Later, as a schoolteacher, he conducted tours of the site. But only now does Okui--and others who remain of the 120,000 ethnic Japanese, mostly American citizens, who were held at Manzanar and nine other internment camps...