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...point isn't really that compassion has no place in the punishment of a President. The point is that compassion is always in order--just no more for a President than for a bank robber. Harsh verdicts should always be rendered with a kind of reluctance and regret...
...course, if you were literally in his shoes, you'd be him and would make the same choices. If you had been born with a bank robber's genes, into a bank robber's environment, then you presumably would have become a bank robber. Genes and environment, so far as science can tell, are all there...
...people. The Duma, supposedly a representative legislature, is hardly that at all. Except for the Communists, Russia has no real political parties, so most of the Deputies vie for power rather than enacting the laws Russia needs. The banks have served all too often as the private preserves of robber barons...
...believe in. For the most part, they do not trust their government, and the administration of President Boris Yeltsin is not helping. It talks reform but hasn't been able to deliver fully. It bills its economy as a free-market system when it actually is a hybrid between robber-baron capitalism and state control. And now it is snatching away the greatest accomplishments of the painful Yeltsin years: a stable ruble and low inflation. On one sticky afternoon, Yeltsin vows that he will not devalue the ruble and won't even break off his vacation to return to Moscow...
...Lopez and Clooney infuse these cardboard cutouts, this flighty girl and this incidental robber, with so much life that their instant attraction seems not only believable but inevitable is nearly miraculous. Stop and think about the plot an hour after the movie and it doesn't seem too impressive, but you'll never question it as the film is rolling. The chemistry between the two is astonishing. Each is perfectly capable of controlling a scene alone as well, thank you very much. Lesser-known Lopez is incredibly appealing--she might play a lousy employee, but she plays a great human...