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...mothers who stay with their children at the hospital, she tends her lovingly, constantly changing filthy diapers, smoothing sheets, pressing a little nourishment between listless lips, trying to tease a smile from the vacant, staring face. Her husband works in Johannesburg, where he lives in a men's squatter camp. He comes home twice a year. She is 25. She has heard of AIDS but does not know it is transmitted by sex, does not know if she or her husband has it. She is afraid this child will die soon, and she is afraid to have more babies...
...last week were students, professionals, doctors, teachers and lawyers - but very few of the lower-class masses who had voted for Estrada and still supported their beloved Erap. "He was the only President who visited us, the urban poor," says Edwin Nacpil, who makes his home in the crumbling squatter area called North Triangle. "We appreciated Erap for what he thought of us and tried to give...
...Harvard Bioscience is no cyber-squatter. It has manufactured and sold medical equipment, including syringe pumps and ventilators, for years. The University's lawsuit has opened up a whole new area where the University could claim its trademark is being infringed. The University has gone from suing those who have intent to deceive and who might actually do damage to pursuing companies that merely "sound like" they might be affiliated with Harvard...
...furniture to buy, what shoes match his suit, and which dinette set best fits his non-existent personality. In this yuppie's life, IKEA is synonymous with orgasm. Enter Tyler Durden. Brad Pitt takes on the challenging role of this American psycho-- a soap salesman who lives as a squatter, steals a sportscar one day and ditches it the next, and takes random nightshift jobs to survive. Tyler wants "freedom" from yuppie existence and he makes it a point to obliterate any rules with which he comes in contact--he pees in customers' food, inserts frames of nudity into family...
...satire. It's supposed to be a biting mockery of yuppie angst. When Norton starts attending testicular cancer and TB support groups to release his anger and built-up anxiety, we laugh (albeit uncomfortably, but we laugh). When he meets Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), a fellow support group squatter, and they divide group therapy sessions between them, we laugh. But when blood starts flying, Norton starts crying, and buildings start frying, we stop laughing. (It almost reminded me of Showgirls, the way the movie just loses its sense of tone halfway through...