Word: subway
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While they hobnobbed, the journalists set about losing their official minders to get an unfettered glimpse of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, which is mired in food, energy and medical shortages. Outside a subway entrance a young man squatted beside a steaming pot, gingerly pouring boiling water over the limp corpse of an unskinned dog. In a downtown hospital, all the lights were out except for those in the foyer that illuminated the colorful portrait of Kim Jong Il and his father Kim Il Sung. The D.P.R.K. lost an estimated half a million people to famine...
DEREK JETER Yankee slugger secures MVP award for Subway Series. It's time for your own Wheaties...
...displays of affection or emotion. When he does smile, it feels wonderful and safe. Unfortunately, Leo, played by Mark Wahlberg, has few reasons to be happy in James Gray's newest feature, The Yards. A dark, noir-ish story set against the intrigues of New York City's subway car suppliers, The Yards is Gray's second major film, and it will only add to his reputation as an intelligent filmmaker. The cast of Gray's first major film, Little Odessa, included Vanessa Redgrave. This time around he's got names like James Caan, Faye Dunaway, Charlize Theron and Joaquin...
...start to like Leo as you see more and more of his life. He wants to make his ailing mother proud, but it seems like so few things in his life have worked out and this is no exception. He falls into the illegal side of his uncle's subway car business by accident, helped along the way by his best friend Willie. But of course things go wrong (they always do) and Leo ends up the target of a police search for putting a police officer in a coma. By the end of the movie, he has been hunted...
There are 8 million story angles in the Subway Series, and it's a shame the best won't play out. All of Gotham is upset that Torre is shielding Clemens by pitching the notorious headhunter only in Yankee Stadium, where the American League's designated-hitter rule says pitchers can't bat and therefore can't get plunked. Mets fans know and Yankees fans suspect that Clemens purposely beaned Piazza during a midsummer game in the Bronx, and in this eye-for-an-eye city, there's a law about facing the music. Says Knoblauch of the Series...