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...Sept. 15]. Although this might be considered good advice from a psychologist, it is folly from a national-policy point of view. The U.S. was not attacked by a troublemaker from whom we should simply turn away. This is a war, not an academic debate over cultural norms or schoolyard bullies. Iyer said we should learn something from the Japanese, who embraced their conquerors. He forgot that they did so only after years of brutal war and a total defeat. Remember Pearl Harbor? There is no way we can "move on" after the 9/11 attacks. Keith N. Meader Hong Kong...
...rock movement worth its salt sells a few records. Many magazines comparing the garage rock revival to the early 90’s grunge movement failed to mention that grunge kicked off with the #1 debut of Nirvana’s Nevermind, which easily sold three million copies to schoolyard bullies and their victims alike within a year’s time. The album set the tone for an entire subsequent decade of platinum-plated alternative radio, forcing the work of vastly untalented bands like Bush, Live and Creed into countless suburban households...
Halfway through his long day's journey into night, and day again, Monty Brogan (Edward Norton) launches into a rant against New York: "F___ you and this city and everyone in it!" He spreads his venom ecumenically--to the Pakistani cab drivers and the black schoolyard studs and the Soprano wannabes in Bensonhurst, and to the Irish-American boyos of whom Monty is one. It's a swell swill of gutter poetry--written by novelist-screenwriter David Benioff and vigorously illustrated in a tabloid-surrealist style by director Spike Lee--that touches on everything New Yorkers, and Americans, love...
...them all through swordplay and wirework. Doyle had shot six films with Leung and three with Cheung. Li and Yen go way back: in the late '70s, they trained together as teens in Beijing. So their rain-soaked battle in Hero has the savor of an ancient schoolyard grudge match...
...securing the approval and cooperation of local town councils. Unlike students, who come and go as the years pass, the residents are here for good and we ought to treat them well. But the residents, too, must end their childish protest politics. It is time to end the schoolyard bickering and establish a tradition of cordial friendship between neighbors...