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With reports coming back of a debris field that stretched from eastern Texas to Louisiana, NASA put out the somewhat disingenuous word that fumes from the fragments could be dangerous and that people who found them should leave them where they lay and alert the authorities--as if any toxic fuel could have survived the heat of re-entry. The more probable reason for the space agency's alerts was that tampering with the remains would make a proper investigation of the disaster that much harder. Worse, within hours pieces of debris purported to be from the lost space plane...
Grand juries are in the business of handing out indictments, and their docility is infamous. A grand jury, the old maxim goes, will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it of them. But I didn't get that sense from this group of grand jurors. They somewhat reflected the demographics of the District of Columbia. The majority were African American and were disproportionately women. Most sat in black vinyl chairs with little desks in rows that were slightly elevated, as if it were a shabby classroom at a rundown college. A kindly African-American forewoman swore...
Harry's adult readers, this one included, tend to want Rowling's novels to Mean Something, and in this somewhat transitional book there are a few too many ingredients in the cauldron for it to come to a boil. But if there's an abiding preoccupation here, it's love: both requited and un-, misplaced, perverted, denied, repressed and obsessive. Rowling plays that theme as both comedy--watch for the long-suffering Ron to get dosed with a love potion--and tragedy. The story of Voldemort's early life plays as a dark parody of Harry's--Voldemort...
...ULLMANN: Well, I don't want to see that. Which, I'm sure, was one of the reasons why Ingmar never gave the script for me to direct. We look at life somewhat different...
...will never say what you are thinking, or why you are doing something. He will give the blockings; then he will sit and watch. He may be very inspired by an actor who is giving him something that he hasn't even thought of. Then he may change somewhat the blocking, or say "do it once more," and he will challenge the actor to maybe show something else. The actors have to be creative...