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...this plight because there is no joint intellectual and grassroots pressure. For example, we praise President Bush’s $15 billion AIDS initiative, but Europeans spend $11 billion a year on ice cream alone. For those not yet convinced, I offer the lack of sufficient response to the rampant genocide of black Africans in Sudan. Maybe we should tell the president that the Sudanese aren’t black, they’re just covered...
...wealthy young woman named Vera (Neve Campbell), who is trapped between the lecherous and dishonest motivations of two men who lack the emotional ability to understand her needs. The film is framed by Toback’s exploration of this narrative within the context of Vera’s rampant sexuality and her search for self-discovery. Toback mixes hip-hop with Beethoven, steadicam control with voyeuristic video footage, and he strikes an unlikely balance between conventional melodrama and episodic airiness. Like many of his films, When Will I Be Loved features copious sex, nudity and dialogue that feels simultaneously...
...many has worsened. Morgan Stanley estimates that GDP per capita has decreased by 2.5% annually over the past eight years. While the economies in other populous developing countries such as India and China roar ahead, crucial foreign investors continue to shun Indonesia due to the threat of terrorism, rampant corruption (a survey conducted last year by Berlin-based watchdog Transparency International ranked Indonesia as the 12th most corrupt country in the world), an often whimsical legal system, high labor costs and an obstructionist bureaucracy poisonous to commerce. Last year, investors pulled $597 million in investment capital out of Indonesia...
...really choose to refer to the totality of mass communication as if it were guided by a single will? Perhaps current usage of “the media” (sing.) is a symptom of the trend towards nation-wide uniformity spearheaded by Michael Powell’s rampant FCC deregulation, which has stunted local programming and brought even the likes of Ted Turner to public protest...
...vote for terrorism? More to the point, how could Bush get away with, well, everything: a misspent youth, a lifetime of insider trading on the family name, a misfought war, a misleading inference that the invasion of Iraq had some vague relevance to 9/11, a presidency marked by rampant corporate cronyism at home and abroad? "If we can't beat this guy, with this record ..." a prominent Democrat said to me. He was unable to finish the sentence...