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...make a fine set of bookends for your hardboiled fiction shelf. Both are set in the prime film-noir territory of sunny, sepulchral California: Los Angeles, home of Philip Marlowe (among other truth seekers) and moviemakers (among other chronic liars) for Mulholland Dr.; Santa Rosa (scene of Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt) for the toxic scent of small-town failure in The Man Who Wasn't There. Both films serve up a lovely, lurid brew of greed, murder and twisted identities. But the Coen movie, with Billy Bob Thornton and Frances McDormand locked in a jealous adagio, is twistily...
...success - or failure - reached the outside world at roughly the speed of yak. Knocking off a big peak might be lauded in an obscure climbing journal, but as far as mainstream audiences were concerned, who cared? These days, however, Simonson sends e-mail from the Rongbuk Glacier in the shadow of Everest's north face and talks as eagerly about dual ISDN lines and transmission rates as he does about rope and backpacks. "Ten years ago we were in the Dark Ages from a technology standpoint," he writes in response to an e-mail from TIME. "Multimedia meant...
...three-story dwellings crisscrossed with alleys. Every light in every building is on. Women and old men peer from balconies and roofs. The vigilantes?men and boys?huddle around, babbling excitedly. Singling out a tall man at the back of the crowd, Gogia asks what happened. "There was this shadow, sir," he replies. "Really, nothing more than a shadow. He has a red light in his stomach and his eyes are red, too." Did you see him? "No." Did anyone? asks Gogia. A young factory worker called Navesh Kumar is pushed forward and Gogia follows him to the rooftop where...
While I was quoted correctly in your article "America's Shadow Drug War," what was omitted may have left the false impression that I believe interdiction in Latin America alone will resolve America's drug problem. Interdiction can succeed only if it is accompanied by a far more vigorous effort to reduce demand in the U.S. and provide more treatment and rehabilitation programs for hard-core addicts. Demand drives supply, supply helps create more drug use, and interdiction is essential, not just to combat drug production but also to defend democratic institutions in Latin America. BERNARD ARONSON Washington...
...Bush biographer, Bill Minutaglio, suggests that there was a heaviness about Bush when he was in college, that he felt the "weight" of his legacy at Yale, that living in his father's shadow - and failing to come close to matching his father's academic and sports success - was a burden. "I don't know about that," the younger Bush said. "I'm not sure I felt any weight." Then a grin crept across the face of the once and future president (of DKE and the United States). "I mean, some might argue that I didn't feel enough weight...