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...early reviews of Hamlet 2 make it seem like a wild anarchic satire. It is nothing of the sort. It's a standard-issue parody of the inspirational-teacher movies that bloomed in the '90s (with Mr. Holland's Opus and Dangerous Minds) and show no signs of going away. Satire's aim is to cleanse by annihilating; that's what Dr. Strangelove and other black comedies of the '60s did. But genuine satire is hard to find on the big screen these days, or any day, because its strident moralist tone tends to alienate audiences. In the definition...
...raped about six months ago. Her family had to pay bribes to pursue the case in the courts. Her sister told me that under the Taliban that man would have been executed. "We want the Taliban back," she said, "because they gave us justice." The Taliban did provide that sort of justice. They were much better in that way. Yes, that's true...
...Scattered among the righteously aggrieved are solo protesters whose vigils seem downright quixotic. Ramdev Kumar, for instance, claims that his wife left him for someone else and his brother usurped his house. For the past two years, Kumar has been agitating for some sort of recompense. "I want the government to do something," he says simply...
...development, like those who have had land seized, can express their unhappiness. "The pressure is building in the pressure cooker and there's no current avenue for it to be released," he says. "I believe we will see many calls both inside and outside the party to put some sort of reforms on the agenda again...
...Still, Bond might face tougher competition than he did in the old days. For Britain's domestic intelligence agency, it was revealed this week, now not only welcomes but actively seeks gay applicants. "For the sort of work that MI5 is doing - not just in operations but in terms of technical support and linguistics - the caliber of people is terribly important to its effectiveness," says Ben Summerskill, chief executive of the gay rights group Stonewall. Sexual preference is a nonissue...