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...lighthearted. Their manner of dealing with the world around them is genuine, beautiful, and adorable—and seems more mature than the coping strategies used by the adults around them. The film relies on scenes of daily life—a man filling his car at a gas station, a woman crossing the street holding a baby, a sweeping view of the town—to create a superficial sense of security. The exterior goings-on of this “Pleasantville”-esque neighborhood renders its interior discord shocking. “Snow Angels...
...sense,” Keyssar said, was that “the train had left the station...
...priorities for the police here in Jardim Angela is making themselves visible. They have reached out to the community by visiting businesses, setting up a free library in the local police station and even helping out at an orphanage. Their outreach program convinced many bars in one area to close down voluntarily after 10 p.m. and tonight, as they wind their SUVs through the dimly lit streets, they stop people as much to get to know them as search for drugs or guns. "The primordial factor here is that they don't see us as the enemy...
...crisis unfolds will be determined not just in Beijing but also by the words and actions of a man who protects his people from afar, in his exile home in the northern-India hill station of Dharamsala. As a Buddhist monk, the Dalai Lama speaks unstintingly on behalf of all people's rights to basic freedoms of speech and thought-though as a Buddhist monk, he also holds staunchly to the view that violence can never solve a problem deep down. If the bloodshed gets out of control, he said in recent days, he will step down as political leader...
...importance to DVDs, let’sconsider the late 70s when home videowas just becoming a reality.It was then that a “format war”erupted between competitors VHS andBetamax for supremacy in home mediadistribution. Sony pitched Betamax bytouting its ability to record from onetelevision station while the screen actuallyshowed another.The battle even resulted in a landmarkSupreme Court case, Sony Corp. v.Universal City Studios. The latter party,along with several other major studios,claimed that Betamax’s recording technologyviolated copyright laws. The SupremeCourt ruled in favor of legal homerecording, setting an important precedentthat helps protect...