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...Washington by weighing in. "For [them] to declare that Congress ought to get out of the issue [was] just totally naive, and absolutely inflamed the Congress," says C. Richard D'Amato, chairman of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. The White House, meanwhile, stayed pretty much silent about the issue throughout...
...best instincts. Ikiru 1952; Akira Kurosawa In his final days, a government functionary discovers the joy of living. Kurosawa, justly celebrated for his muscular action spectacles, achieves a delicate and totally unsentimental irony in this small, glowing gem of a movie. Persona 1966; Ingmar Bergman A famous actress falls silent, unable to speak of and to the world's brutalities and banalities. Her nurse fills the emptiness with chipper chatter, eventually talking herself into her patient's tragic view. Bergman has never been more bleak, austere, enigmatic or hypnotic. Chinatown 1974; Roman Polanski Dewy-fresh 1930s Los Angeles becomes...
...average of just over $50 a month, according to CTIA, the wireless-industry association ? Plantronics' new Pulsar Bluetooth stereo headphones ($200) are phone savvy; they let you listen to music wirelessly from a PC or MP3 player, but when a phone call comes in, the music goes silent. --By Wilson Rothman
...enjoying this so-called college life, actually being on my own, planning out my days,” she says. “There’s things to do, but when you go in the Yard at night it’s completely silent. Then you take two steps out and there’s bands playing...
Harper, a fierce but silent critic of Summers on the University’s top governing board, said he had written a letter to the University President on July 14 explaining his resignation. In an interview today, Harper would not divulge the details of that letter...