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...completely unwatchable. Dan Bloom Chiayi City, Taiwan Memoirs Of A Geisha may be a good film, but any culture that uses women in a patronizing way deserves to be criticized. Societies that respect women will progress; the rest will degenerate. Krishna Raman Chennai, India Corliss says China is rich in top actresses and Japan isn't. But there are wonderful Japanese actresses in The Last Samurai (2003) and The Twilight Samurai (2002), and the latter was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Movie. Just because Chinese films are better marketed than those made in Japan doesn't mean...
...Philadelphia Daily News columnist John M. Baer, one of the state?s veteran political observers, noted Friday, Pennsylvania actually has a rich tradition of politicians and their handlers putting their foot in their mouths during a crucial moment of a political campaign. In 1990 gubernatorial challenger Barbara Hafer called incumbent Bob Casey ?A redneck Irishman,? propelling him to a second term, and Dick Thornburgh?s aide once called his boss ?The salvation of this sorry-ass state,? pretty much assuring that Harris Wofford would become the state's next U.S. senator in 1991. So it seems that, thanks to Seif...
...been handed the game, thanks to an ill-advised comment by his chief opponent's campaign manager. James Seif, a widely respected and seasoned political operative, was on the Pennsylvania Cable Network Wednesday night discussing the campaign of former Lt. Gov. Bill Scranton when he derided Swann as ?the rich white guy in this race.? Even though Seif seemed to be trying to paint Swann as a well-connected insider in contrast with Scranton-despite the fact that Scranton (as in the city) comes from a distinguished Pennsylvania family-it was an odd, unfortunate choice of words, since Swann, well...
...interest in fresh, humane comics storytelling - should seek out Seyeong O's Buja's Diary. Along with Yoshihiro Tatsumi's The Push Man, the two books reveal a side of Asian comix that could redefine the manga/manwha "genre" for most Americans by telling small, mature stories that are rich in complexity, humor and meaning in their unique way as any Western graphic literature...
...India, China, and other new markets join the world economy, "the integration of the four-fifths of the world where people are poor with the one-fifth of the world where people are rich has the potential to be one of the three most important economic events in the last millennium, alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution," Summers said, according to a summary posted on the forum's website...