Word: problem
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...that take place in the present. This set-up at the beginning of the film is fine, but the ending just doesn't work. Immediately after the final scene from 1935, the story shifts back to the present for a wrap-up that comes across as contrived (the same problem plagued Saving Private Ryan). Instead of ending the film in the present, it would have been much more powerful to cut it off in the past. Still, despite this minor blemish, the film is a spectacular cinematic achievement, and although Oscar time is still far away, The Green Mile seems...
Changing the "sink-or-swim" atmosphere of the College--both in advising and in social life--took center stage for most of the candidates, who differed primarily in their suggested approaches to the problem...
...think it's more than just a PR problem," he said...
...system. Now the U.S. appears to have come around to the European approach, emphasizing the need to have monitors in there." The danger now, though, is that UNSCOM (the United Nations Special Commission) gets replaced with a tamer and less confrontational monitoring body. "UNSCOM's combativeness eventually created political problems for both the Iraqis and the West," says Dowell. "There may be a temptation to avoid confrontation in a future monitoring system. And that's potentially a major problem, because the worst-case scenario would be a toothless monitoring system that creates a false sense of security." In other words...
...access in minority communities. According to a 1999 Commerce Department report, there is a so-called "digital divide" in America, with blacks and Hispanics having sharply lower access than their white counterparts. And, says TIME technology writer Joshua Quittner, Clinton's interest will draw much-needed attention to the problem. "This is good stuff - precisely the kind of thing the President ought to be doing," says Quittner. "Americans are guaranteed 'universal service' from the phone companies, and there's no reason the same shouldn't be true of Internet access...