Word: sentimentals
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What you probably will never guess is that Angel Eyes is better than the plot makes it sound. Partly that's because the director, Luis Mandoki, who made the ghastly Message in a Bottle, balances the movie's sentiment with a good, tough view of a cop's life both on the job and (especially) off duty. He's good with the hard kidding in bars and junk-food emporiums. Mostly, though, the movie works because Lopez gives such a terrific performance. She's a vulnerable hard-ass, lonesome but damned if she'll admit it, forgiving in some relationships...
...Well, one good one: The University of Michigan's final May reading of consumer sentiment about the economy rose to 92.0 from 88.4 in April. Finally, that trend may be on the way up, and consumer spending may well follow with a recovery form its recent slip. It had better - in a TIME.com Q&A, TIME senior economics reporter Bernie Baumohl says the numbers indicate that the U.S. economy is shrinking in the second quarter - meaning, right now. And where it goes in the third quarter will again be up to those consumers...
...That sentiment reverberated around Israel last week as the latest outrage in the seven-month Aqsa intifadeh touched nerves already dangerously raw. The brutality of the murders raised ever louder demands that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon strike harder at the Palestinians. Israeli newspapers expressed shock that surpassed their anger seven weeks ago when a Palestinian sniper killed Shalhevet Pass, a 10-month-old in the Israeli settlement in Hebron. It somehow seemed worse that this time the victims were not Hebron extremists, but peaceable people of Tekoa in Gush Etzion...
...will implement the energy policy are never mentioned, the recommendations that are neither redundant nor fluff generally sound their factories' morning whistle (The only sector mentioned is the auto industry, which, the report states, should not be "negatively impacted" by any new Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards. A worthy sentiment, but "negatively impacted" itself looms as fuel for later debate...
Offner’s sentiment was echoed by a number of the speakers who, though they acknowledged that Harvard had not implemented a living wage, said that the reopening of the issue represented a major triumph...