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...death of Europe. And Dutch journalist Geert Mak's new history of Europe's 20th century begins with a scene from a picturesque European village in 1999. It's a place he finds filled with endings, loss and decay. "The storks had left by now. Their nests lay silent and empty atop the chimneys. The summer was in afterglow, the mayor sweated as he cut back the municipal grass." If that doesn't evoke expiration, consider that the mayor is cutting the grass with a scythe...
Just as natural are the rules of capitalism. Rule No. 1: Make a profit on your product. Saw, the 2004 thriller that triggered the latest barrage of ultragore, cost $1.2 million and earned more than $100 million at the worldwide box office. The Hills Have Eyes and Silent Hill grossed more than $150 million between them. Then all the films went to DVD, where the real money is. Cheap movies that make a bundle--that's just good business...
...wish the title of your story had read "Why They Kill Each Other" instead of "Why They Hate Each Other." I am a Shi'ite Muslim, and I do not hate Sunnis. Millions of Sunnis and Shi'ites are like me. We are the silent majority. Ignorance and intolerance have helped ignite old dormant prejudices and led to sectarian and hatred killings. Provided that regional political and military troubles are resolved, it will take generations and new systems of education to make religious and political leaders preach progress, tolerance, care and love among all human beings, whether they are Muslim...
...sensitivity the present does. He whines to his therapist and "goes about in pity" for himself (the quote is from an Ojibwe proverb that Tony reads and that he believes applies only to other people), yet he longs for the days when men were strong and silent like Gary Cooper. He's a hotheaded brute who imagines himself, as he says, a cool "captain-of-industry type." He longs for the patriarchal prerogatives of bosses before him yet feels obligated to be faithful to his wife--or at least to try, kind of, once in a while...
...twigs. Using metal footholds, I climbed down into the gloom below and saw with some relief that the tunnel at the bottom was larger than we had feared. We would have to crouch, but not crawl. It was still a tight squeeze as we inched cautiously along the dank silent passageway, which ran for about 20 feet before turning left and descending in a gradual slant. The rock sides of the tunnel were lined with a mesh of steel bars and girders. Huge brown spiders clinging to the walls watched the human intruders impassively...