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Jonathan (Elijah Wood) is a collector with a limited range and a deep, if enigmatically motivated, passion. What he saves is family memorabilia--his grandma's false teeth, a dollar bill, even dirt from ground that is somehow hallowed in family memory. All this stuff he seals in plastic Baggies and pins to a wall in his room. One of his most prized possessions is a photograph of his grandfather with a Ukrainian woman who, according to family legend, saved his life during World War II. In Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan journeys to the Ukraine to discover her fate...
...power to cause these calamities, maybe he would have the power to prevent them. The speed with which the commentariat moved from covering an actual storm to a political one-hurricanes don't kill people, inept bureaucrats kill people-suggests which subject is more comfortable discussing. Somehow human nature, even at its most disturbing, is less scary than Mother Nature at her most murderously cavalier, thousands dead in a single deep breath...
...stuff you hate, though due to the way the digital rights management controls the streaming audio, there's a limit to how many songs you can skip in a session. As you work on it, you'll start steering your way towards music you've never heard of-but somehow enjoy. That is Pandora's goal...
...fine-tune their positions on the North Korean nuclear issue in order to resolve it. Second, I hope President Bush will discuss the issue of North Korean refugees in China. China has been so hard on these refugees that I hope the U.S. will work to protect these people somehow...
...specific details left blank—it struck me that these were the sort of opinions one might expect to encounter during a famine in 19th century Russia: sincere belief that not only is one man personally responsible for an act of nature but also that, somehow, he alone could have made everything work out for the best. Although these authors have all made the obligatory concession of “stuff happens,” I have been dumbstruck at the opinion that President Bush could, by his own actions, have made one of the most powerful hurricanes ever...