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Gaddafi, who had been conspicuous by his public absence, emerged to inaugurate an international trade fair on Tuesday and stroll through a cheering, worshipful claque. The official government line was that three U.S. planes had been downed and there were no Libyan casualties. After the battle, Libyan radio exhorted its audience: "O, heroes of our Arab nation, let your / missiles and suicide cells pursue American terrorist embassies and interests wherever they may be!" Gaddafi, seemingly pumped up by the battle, was still on a high Friday, when he appeared on the balcony of his well-protected bunker in Tripoli...
Outside the cities, sex involves greater risk. In some rural areas, if a single man walks a single woman to her door, the stroll is equivalent to a declaration of marriage. The misreading of a relationship by neighbors or an accusation can bring social ruin. As in most other countries, the woman bears the brunt of the blame for sexual misconduct, though that may slowly be changing. One weekly managed to be both antisex and antisexist when it wrote that "virginity education should be carried out with females and males at the same time. A girl...
...camera paint the past, while the characters consciously or unconsciously falsify it. In one scene, May describes her mother holding her hand so hard she fears her bones might crack. The camera shows mother and daughter walking at a distance. Eddie describes the night he and his father stroll silently to a liquor store and share a bottle of whiskey. The camera shows the father walking and talking with his arm around his son, not bothering to offer him a bit of the liquor...
...creator. Now that he's through with suffering, we should be thankful he's still producing at all. That's Why I'm Here may not attract new fans to Taylor's work, but loyal and longtime fans will rejoice in the opportunity to take one more refreshing stroll with the Walking...
What is to be done? Refusing to eat Whoppers or to skip that headache-filled stroll through Downtown Crossing simply translates into moral purism. Such acts might also lead the quasi-veggie to join a commune tucked away in a Vermont forest or isolated on a northern California sea-cliff. But a seclusion without frozen Swanson's brownies or the pulpy grease of Quarter Pounders also loses out on the potentially progressive parts of an often despicable society...