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...humor of the piece even without the nuanced talent of Dano and Deschanel.Furthermore, the film manages to focus on these quirks without overdoing them as indie flicks often do. The silly surface of the film is upheld by beautiful cinematography and careful music choices. A few shots in particular stand out: one at the very start of the film, a view of lower Manhattan ironically dwarfing the movie’s title against the skyscrapers, and later a panorama of a shadowed indoor pool that silhouettes Brian and Happy against a stark white wall. The music, which ranges from instrumental...
...Harvard—had begun to fade by the time Zachary I. Baron ’04-’05 arrived at RH, which he says was then in “a wussier phase.” “It was kind of a nerdy, stand-offish, hostile group that kind of looked down at other people,” says Baron, now an editor at the Village Voice. For him, that group represented “a real low in terms of the station’s interface with the greater community...
...that soon, [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu is going to set the agenda, not us - and that will be a disaster. If we don't act now, any chance of a two-state solution will be gone. If he does act now, every government in the world will stand with him." Except, perhaps, the Israelis and their American supporters in the Jewish and Evangelical communities. Obama's willingness to override domestic politics for the greater good will be a major test...
There are other challenges. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has submitted a radically sane Pentagon budget, which eliminates some unneeded weapons systems - and is likely to be eviscerated by members of Congress from the districts where those systems are built. "We are absolutely going to stand with Gates on this one," said an Obama aide, implying that the President would veto a same-old defense budget...
...Brzezinski's stark choice is emblematic of the problem that Obama faces now that his first 100 days is nearly complete. There are those who mistake his quiet, deliberative style for softness. There is the fear that he won't have the strength to stand up to the Israelis (or the Iranians) or to the left wing of his party on health care or to the porkers on the defense budget. On the other hand, there are three dead Somali pirates who attest to this President's ability to make tough decisions in a timely fashion. Obama won't stand...