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...feature film. “Because it’s based on a real-world story, because many of the characters are still alive, and because many of these issues are so important, we had to find a way to tell the inspiring and dramatically compelling truth, and to root it in authenticity,” Haney says. “So that the reaction would be almost visceral, so that you would feel it more than think about it.”To this end, Haney cast actors that he felt would cut straight to the core of each...
...Your mother was a shrink when you were growing up. What was that like? Well, Andrea, it's hard to picture my mom solving other people's problems when she's the root of most of mine. It's a challenge. In one way, I do feel that my mother did instill in me the old get-ye-to-a-shrinkery, the value of therapy and its good effect on your life. I think that's been great, but shrinks as parents is a little tough because they're not that adept at switching out the shrink hat with...
...begun to advance into a key region just 60 miles from Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad. A temporary peace agreement has stopped the worst of the fighting, but the insurgency is clearly an existential threat to the Pakistani government, which has been relatively cooperative with the U.S. to root out terrorists in the region. As such, given the critical security situation in Pakistan and the region as a whole—Islamabad also controls the only nuclear arsenal in the Muslim world—it is high time that the United States reconsider the nature of its alliance with...
...Cougar,” cougar du jour Stacey Anderson nearly chokes herself with continual assertions of the term’s power to dispel cultural stereotypes and reverse traditional gender dynamics. Citing their heightened spontaneity and “zest for life” as the root of her attraction to younger men, Stacey suffuses her statements with not-so-subtle sexuality, gloating: “I’m in my prime, they’re in their prime, so not only is that connection outside the bedroom, it’s inside the bedroom as well...
...boycotts rarely address root political problem and often actually aggravate a situation by drawing attention to what is being reacted against. Ignoring and avoiding Ahmadinejad will never make him go away or blunt his rhetoric. Instead of boycotting, the U.S. and other Western nations should have attended the conference and expressed their own thoughts on problems of racism and ways of combating them...