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...labored to eat then, and I labor to eat now." Sant Raj, Indian farmhand, saying government neglect of the rural poor drove him to vote against the Bharatiya Janata Party, which lost India's general election to Sonia Gandhi's Congress Party...
...rumor got started in the Baltic states last month, then swept across all of Central and Eastern Europe. Alzbeta Santúrová, a retiree who lives in the south Slovak village of Bajc, heard one version of it last week: the price of sugar was about to skyrocket from the current 98? per kilo to around $1.34. So Santúrová is stocking up; she is buying 50 kg. "I am afraid," says Santúrová, 65, who lives on a $170-a-month pension. "I need at least 60 kg of sugar to make wine every...
...juicy Oscar bait. One of my most cherished films, The Manchurian Candidate, is being remade with Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep on board. Though remakes of classic films are only occasionally successful, this pedigree will guarantee at least a vastly entertaining mess (I can hear those Gus Van Sant Psycho violins...
Despite the audience’s foreknowledge of the eventual attack, the violence is no less startling when it arrives. In contrast to the majority of action movies, which present killings and bloodshed as something to be anxiously anticipated, Van Sant creates a tangible dread and a sense of impending loss. The violence is shown vividly where it cannot be avoided, but Van Sant is admirably selective and restrained in what he shows. The murders are never glorified, and each death elicits in the viewer the sadness and anger it deserves. Even the killers realize that this...
...proverbial elephant that becomes invisible after people grow accustomed to its presence, the implication being that the cause of the Columbine should be as obvious as an elephant in someone’s living. As a title for this movie, however, it’s a misnomer. Van Sant respects his audience and subject too much to suggest a single cause for the Columbine killings, and the film is a beautifully nuanced exploration of some of those causes. It is a tribute to Elephant and its director that the viewer emerges, shaken, almost as bewildered as most Americans were...