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This is the sort of movie where it almost feels as though the person who wrote the second page never read the first. A film where a character can tell a girl that he likes “Pride and Prejudice” because it reminds him of the hazards of first impressions, and then in the next scene be found rereading the book, explaining “I just met a girl who reminds me of Elizabeth Bennett.” Is he not listening to his own dialogue? The movie often gives that impression...
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...Compson family, a declining aristocratic Southern clan living on a once-prosperous plantation. The first three sections are written from the point of view of the three Compson brothers: the mentally retarded Benjy, the suicidal Harvard student Quentin, and the cruel and domineering Jason. When I first tried to read the novel in high school, I stopped midway through the third section from spiritual exhaustion. Only after reading the entire novel did the illuminating role of comedy became apparent...
Josh Ozersky is a James Beard Award-winning food writer and the author of The Hamburger: A History. You can listen to his weekly show at the Heritage Radio Network and read his column on home cooking on Rachael Ray's website. He is currently at work on a biography of Colonel Sanders...
...Administration faces Senate challenges on the issue from several quarters. Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman introduced a bill last week that would block civilian trials for foreign terrorism suspects, prevent terrorism suspects from being read Miranda rights and require that they be held in military detention. McCain and Lieberman are close to Graham, and their proposed legislation has raised questions among supporters of civilian trials about the usefulness of negotiating with Graham...