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...jury commendations at both the 2006 Seattle Film Festival and the 2006 South By Southwest Film Festival. Unfortunately, the film’s mixture of soul-searching angst and renegade idealism creates more melancholy than comedy in a cinematic experience that gets old fast. The story is about the rise and fall of John “Rugged” Rudgate (Aaron Stanford, “X-Men: The Last Stand”) and his notorious life of crime. Initially, Rugged’s attempts at law-breaking are so pathetic that the only person who thinks he?...
...Some 20-30% of plant and animal species are at risk of extinction if global temperatures rise in line with median projections, while by 2080, many millions of people living along coastlines will face an annual flood risk. As Camille Parmesan, a professor of integrative biology at the University of Texas, put it, "We're going into a realm the world has not seen for a very long time...
...Take a day in the life of Wong Kam-hung, a 38-year-old Hong Kong buyer of plastic goods. He's at the office by 8 a.m., leaves between 12 and 13 hours later, and gets back to his high-rise suburban apartment at around 10 p.m. His four kids-one is 11, one is 5 and there are 2-year-old twins-are in bed by 11 at the latest, leaving him one hour to spend with them if he's lucky. At the same time as seeing to them, an exhausted Wong also tries to relax...
...around Erbil-once a glaring semidesert wasteland-are exploding with luxury housing developments, such as a "British Village" that looks like a gated California suburb, and Dream City, which will supposedly have its own conference center, supermarket and American-style school. The Turkish developers of Naz City, a high-rise condominium complex, are trying to sell house-proud Kurds on modern apartment living. An American company wants to build Iraq's first ski resort in the mountains near the Turkish and Iranian borders. While citizens in Baghdad struggle to survive, a sign in Erbil declares that the city is "Striving...
...article"Why Is Rudy Smiling?" [April 2] neglected the key element in Rudy Giuliani's rise in the polls over the past few months: his reversals on abortion, which have made him acceptable to many pro-life Republicans. Prior to the campaign, he opposed a ban on partial-birth abortion (which he now favors) and considered the Roe v. Wade ruling "good constitutional law" (he now promises to appoint strict constructionists--code for overturning Roe). While still nominally pro-choice, he has positioned himself as effectively pro-life...