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Palestinian financial reformers have an advantage that political progressives lack: a population that is sick of corruption and can't blame it on outsiders. Palestinians often assign their lack of progress toward an independent state to Israeli and American obstinacy, but malfeasance is an all-Palestinian issue, one on which there is a broad popular demand for change. That has given Fayyad, a former official of the International Monetary Fund with a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Texas, the confidence to order the scrubbing of the Authority's books. Says Karim Nashashibi, the IMF's representative...
Slapstick or Just Sick...
...Tang gives ?Red to Kill? a lot of style to complement his characters? fevered behavior: compositions architectural in their framing; a palette that plays the garish red against a night of black and dark blue. But his real art is in dragging the viewer not only into the sick action but into the steaming souls of villain and victim. As Hendrix writes: ?This is a movie that spirals down and down until it passes the point of no return. And then it doesn?t. (The) characters, traumatized by their very existence, run around sweating and crying out their pain, looking...
...have to acknowledge the obvious: that Hongkies get their sensation in tabloid form these days, by reading about the sins of the stars in the tell-all, show-all local press. But where else have they to go for sick thrills? The golden age of Hong Kong horror is dead - as dead as a fellow who?s just seen his wife have sex with a devil fetus and jumped screaming from an upstairs window. Fortunately for us, it?s also able to be revived, in zombie form, on home video and, lustrously, in the occasional repertory theater. For those connoisseurs...
...We’ve gotten respect from supervisors. We have better benefits, like health care plans and better wages. We have more sick days and vacation days,” said Victoria Iscayau, who attended the party, and has been working as a janitor at the Law School for about 20 months...