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...high speed action sequences, always ending in spectacular crashes and conflagrations in American movies. Canet is much more rational in his handling of the sequence - just this lone guy dodging through the traffic, which naturally ends up in a nasty tangle, but not in a big time fireball. The result is a piece in which we retain our identification with the protagonist. It's a nightmare, all right, but always a plausible...
...raising oil prices artificially. This could even be true, but if so, it's irrelevant. Speculators cannot affect the price of oil in the long run. What speculators do is get us to the long run sooner. If they think underlying forces of supply and demand will ultimately result in oil at $200 per bbl., they will bid up the price until it is close to $200 per bbl. already. Similarly, if speculators think the price of oil will go down, they will drive it down more quickly. So, actually, speculation can be seen as a good thing: it forces...
...grandson of admirals becomes a war hero. In Obama's, patriotism is about escaping what came before: the grandson of an African farmer becomes the embodiment of the American Dream. If McCain's identity has been shaped largely by inherited tradition, Obama's is largely the result of personal invention, a deeply American concept. Obama chose a profession, a city, a religious identity, even a racial one, mostly on his own. His first book is called not Faith of My Fathers--how could it be, since in so many ways he has created his own faith?--but Dreams from...
...connected all that well with his constituents." Though Cannon was re-elected five times, his support for a guest-worker immigration program, and for a measure permitting states to charge in-state tuition to the children of illegal immigrants, hurt his standing among anti-immigration groups. Partly as a result, he faced primary tests in both...
...upcoming O'Hara trial Piper and Phillabaum are once again up against Howard - who has saved the lives of 15 of his previous 19 clients in death-penalty cases. But Phillabaum insists that the anticrying motion is not a reaction to one particular trial or attorney, but the result of witnessing emotional displays "inappropriate[ly]" tipping the scales of justice in many capital cases...