Word: starks
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...take out Iran's nuclear development program. On Sept. 16, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner warned that the international community had to "prepare for the worst" in its negotiations with Tehran - and that "the worst is war." That declaration came just one month after Sarkozy himself offered his own stark assessment of the two choices at hand - "an Iranian bomb and a bombardment of Iran" - should negotiations with Tehran fail...
...stark choices humans faced during the 1994 Rwandan genocide still rivet us. In this raw retelling, a priest (John Hurt) and a teacher (Hugh Dancy) must decide whether to stay and share the fate of 2,500 Tutsis, including a favorite pupil (Claire-Hope Ashley), who take refuge from Hutu thugs at their school. The tense action and graceful performances allay compassion fatigue...
...important question: Is the Iraq war, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee inquired at Tuesday afternoon's session, "making America safer?" Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, was uncharacteristically uncertain. "Sir," he said, "I don't know, actually." For many watching, that answer was a stark indictment of the Bush Administration's conduct of the war over the past four years, and the logic behind it. It may also have been taken as a slap in the face by family members of the 3,774 Americans who have made the ultimate sacrifice in this conflict...
...There is no victory in the destruction of one tyrant while breeding 10,000 terrorists." John McCain, a Vietnam POW for five years, voted for the war; but a few used Vietnam as a warning from history. "You're sentencing thousands of Americans to sure death," declared Rep. Pete Stark (D-Cal.). "Some of you did that [when the Senate authorized the Vietnam engagement in 1964], and you can look at the 50,000 names on the wall down on the Mall. Don't do it again...
...very solid genre filmmaking to disarm an audience's disbelief. Westerns, as we all know, are a disused movie form, and part of this film's appeal lies simply in returning us to the thrilling days of yesteryear, to the beauty of spare narrative played out in a stark landscape. 3:10 is, of course, a remake of the 1958 movie that starred Van Heflin and Glenn Ford, which was, in my opinion, not as good as a lot of people thought, mostly because the mumbly Ford could only play one note at a time, which meant he erred more...